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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters U.S. elected to U.N. rights council for first time Wed May 13, 2009 12:41am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States won election to the U.N. Human Rights Council for the first time on Tuesday, joining 17 other nations picked for the body, after the Obama administration ended a U.S. policy of boycotting it. U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said Washington still believed the body was flawed, but added: "We are looking forward to working from within with a broad cross-section of member states to strengthen and reform the Human Rights Council." The United States was one of 18 countries elected or reelected to three-year terms on the 47-seat Geneva-based council in a vote by the U.N. General Assembly, joining 29 others who are in mid-term. Some nations that have faced criticism for their own human rights records, including China, Cuba and Saudi Arabia, were among those elected on Tuesday. The council meets three times a year to review global rights issues as well as holding special sessions on crises. It is halfway through scrutinizing the human rights situation in every U.N. member state under a new periodic review mechanism and can appoint experts to probe abuses in specific countries. But critics say it is dominated by Muslim countries and their allies who focus on Israel's treatment of Palestinians and ignore abuses in influential developing states. The Bush administration took that view and stayed out of the council, set up three years ago to replace a discredited predecessor. Tuesday's U.S. election was virtually assured under a system in which regional groupings of nations agree in advance on who will stand. Only three countries vied for the three seats available for the so-called Western European and Others group after New Zealand stepped aside to make way for the United States. That meant each of those three needed to get only a simple majority, or 97, of the assembly votes. The United States got 167 votes, compared with 179 for Norway and 177 for Belgium. U.S. 'NOT PERFECT' The United States often has criticized human rights abuses in other countries but in recent years has come under criticism itself for using interrogation techniques that critics call torture on terrorism suspects. "There will always be some countries whose respect and record on human rights is sub-par. We have not been perfect ourselves," Rice said. "But we intend to lead based on the strong, principled vision that the American people have about respecting human rights, supporting democracy." But the U.S. decision to enter the council divided both politicians and advocacy groups. On Monday, former Czech President Vaclav Havel called the elections a farce. U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican, said U.S. membership would not change the "grim reality" of the council. "It will only legitimize the council's anti-freedom, anti-U.S., anti-Israel actions," she said. Only two groups -- Africa and Eastern Europe -- had contested elections. 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