President Biden’s administration will return the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council, reversing his predecessor’s abandonment of an organization known for coddling authoritarians in a bid to improve U.S. global relations.

“We recognize the U.N. Human Rights Council has its flaws, but we also believe it can help promote fundamental freedoms around the world,” said Olivia Alair Dalton, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, on Monday. “The only way we can ensure the Human Rights Council fulfills this important mandate is by being at the table as an observer and working with our partners and allies in a principled fashion to make it better.”