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Maya Yang

US diplomats stage UN walkout after France criticizes human rights record under Trump

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The US ambassador to the UN, Michael Waltz, speaking at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Photograph: Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

US diplomats walked out of a United Nations meeting after France criticized the country’s human rights record under Donald Trump.

The staged walkout, which occurred on Monday during a UN security council meeting on the Ukraine-Russia war, came days after the Trump administration cited “forced labor” allegations as it imposed sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries.

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