UNITED NATIONS, March 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The UN General Assembly is to hold a plenary session Wednesday to determine the fate of a draft resolution on the creation of the human rights council, on which Washington has called for renegotiations.

    Assembly President Jan Elliason of Sweden scheduled the meeting in the hope that the resolution he painstakingly helped draft in the past several weeks could be adopted by consensus.

    The Geneva-based Commission on Human Rights has postponed its annual session, originally slated for Monday, for one week so that the new human rights body could be established before the session opens.

    Replacing the widely-criticized human rights commission with a strong council is one of the measures agreed on by world leaders at their summit in New York last September.

    The United States, the only opponent of the draft, showed no signs of readiness to drop its demand to reopen the text for renegotiations.

    U.S. Ambassador John Bolton reiterated Tuesday that if there was a vote on the resolution, his country would vote "no".

    It remains unknown whether the United States would call for a vote on the draft or allow the 191-nation assembly to adopt the measure by acclamation and then state its objections.

    The United States insists that the present text has "deficiencies" and needs to be improved through fresh negotiations. But it is widely feared that other countries would also propose amendments if the text is reopened for changes, thus leading the new talks nowhere. Enditem