WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it would not attend a U.N. conference on racism unless the wording of a document it considers anti-Israeli is changed, but would resume observer status in the U.N. Human Rights Council.
In a reversal of Bush administration policy, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the United States would attend the current U.N. Human Rights Council session, even though the body's anti-Israeli "trajectory is disturbing."
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