Sources: U.S. to sign U.N. gay rights declaration

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Sources: U.S. to sign U.N. gay rights declaration
MSNBC
Associated Press
March 17 2009


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29745175/


WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will endorse a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that then-President George W. Bush had refused to sign, The Associated Press has learned.

U.S. officials said Tuesday they had notified the declaration's French sponsors that the administration wants to be added as a supporter. The Bush administration was criticized in December when it was the only western government that refused to sign on.