The resolution is backed by the United States, but it's well-known that Chirac and the Bush administration have not always seen eye to eye at the U.N. on the Iraq situation.
With that has come a voracious hunger for money, in which U.N. planners keep casting an acquisitive eye at global commerce, looking for ways to tap in and open the spigots straight into the U.N.
We must promote dignity and human rights throughout all of Sudan, and this includes extending the mandate of the U.N. independent expert of Sudan -- because we cannot turn a blind eye to the violation of basic human rights.