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| Subject: What took you so long?: U.N. General Assembly Votes to Suspend Russia from Human Rights Council Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:53 pm | |
| The U.N. General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the organization’s Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
Ninety-three member states voted in favor of a resolution to suspend Russia, while 24 voted against and 58 abstained. Countries may be suspended from the HRC by a vote of two-thirds of assembly members who cast a “yes” or “no” vote.
Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Monday that the U.S. would attempt to suspend Russia from the HRC after Ukraine claimed that Russian forces had killed dozens of civilians in Bucha, a Kyiv suburb.
“Russia’s participation on the Human Rights Council is a farce,” Thomas-Greenfield said at the time. “And it is wrong, which is why we believe it is time the UN General Assembly vote to remove them.”
.https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-n-general-assembly-votes-to-suspend-russia-from-human-rights-council/
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