At some point, he obtained a draft of resolutions written by Vice President Thomas Jefferson denouncing the recently-enacted Alien and Sedition Acts.
Indeed, the draft of Resolution 5A had called these median bodies planetoids, but the plenary session voted unanimously to change the name to dwarf planet.
He said that the Palestinians had invited the Americans and the Israelis to be involved in the drafting of the resolution several months ago, but that they refused.
American Ambassador Samantha Power called Russia's drafting of the resolution "ironic, to say the least" given it was "backing an all-out assault" in Ukraine.
White House officials say that much of the drafting of the resolution was done by Mr. Gonzales's deputy, Mr. Flanigan, a longtime Washington conservative who worked on Mr. Bush's efforts in the 2000 election to stop the recount of votes in Florida and who worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department during Bush I.
In 1995, to commemorate the hundred-and-fiftieth birthday of the S.B.C., he led the drafting of a resolution that acknowledged "the role that slavery played in the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention," and "begged forgiveness from our African-American brothers and sisters".
A State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack, said Tuesday that Washington was working on a new draft of sanction resolutions to be discussed at the Friday meeting.
Because of the uncertainty surrounding Breckinridge's activities in Virginia in 1798, the extent of his influence on Jefferson's original draft of the resolutions is unknown.
He drafted a series of resolutions based on the Catechism that were introduced in the House of Commons in 1818.
The drafting of the UN resolution was confirmed by the country's foreign ministry.
