VN Mensenrechten verantwoordelijke Mary Robinson zegt dat haar contract niet verlengd is onder druk van de VS. Die zouden niet blij zijn met haar kritiek op de behandeling van o.a. de vermeende Al Qaeda-leden op Guantanamera. "I am not somebody just to walk away," Ms Robinson said. "If I had been hard-pressed, I would have stayed, [but] there seems to have been strong resistance from just one country." Maar de woordvoerder van Annan zegt: "It's not one state or one body of states saying this is what we want - otherwise, frankly, you'd have a very different-looking UN."