UN Assembly approves weakened summit blueprint

[News Manager]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly
approved a watered-down declaration on development, human
rights, terrorism and global security on Tuesday for adoption
at the world body's 60th anniversary summit.

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[Marinerhodes]

The document condemns terrorism "in all its forms" but at the insistence of Islamic countries, negotiators deleted wording describing the targeting of civilians as "unjustified" in exchange for dropping a reference to national liberation struggles, such as that of the Palestinians


Fresh initiatives include the establishment of a new human rights body, a Peacebuilding Commission to help nations emerging from war and perhaps most significantly, an obligation to intervene when civilians face genocide and war crimes.

Seems a bit contradictive in view of the Jihad and possibly other forms of a holy war, or am I misinterpreting something?