(Ha'aretz) Barak Ravid - Six of Israel's allies have demanded an upgrade of its status on the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, a Western diplomat said. In the wake of Israel's agreement to resume ties with the HRC, on Nov. 6 the ambassadors of the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France and the U.S. sent a letter to the UN's institutions in Geneva asking that Israel be brought into the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) at the HRC.
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