GENEVA—After a long break of four days for the holidays here, the UN Human Rights Commission (HRC) has entered the tense final stretch of its sessions, with six issues and many resolutions to be discussed.

The 60th HRC’s program today, April 13, includes issues No. 16 and 17, and voting on definitive documents on Articles six and seven. These refer to protocols on racial discrimination and xenophobia and the right to development. The tensest moments are expected during Thursday and Friday.

If the agenda is completed as anticipated, the 15th and 16th will be basically set aside for trying to win votes for documents condemning groups of Third World countries, among them, Cuba, Zimbabwe, China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Well ahead of time, Cuba announced that the Honduran government is to take charge of presenting a U.S-drafted resolution criticizing Cuba, according to Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque.

Intrigues by the Honduran delegation at the HRC were soon evident. In order to make its level of commitment to the White House even clearer, Honduras supported all of the U.S. positions during last week’s deliberations in Geneva.

Four definitive documents have already been approved, one of them by consensus, and the rest by an overwhelming majority of “yes” votes that highlighted the determined isolation of the United States, in the company of Britain, Australia and possibly the European Union.