The UN General Assembly on Tuesday, October 10, did not elect Russia as a member of the organization’s human rights council. There is no Russian Federation among the fifteen members elected by the General Assembly for 2024-2026.
“European truth” tellsthat among the European states Bulgaria, Albania, France and the Netherlands will be represented there. For the two seats on the council reserved for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia competed with the first two.
Last month, the newspaper notes, Russia launched an active campaign – it became known that it was distributing a position paper among UN member states calling for support for its election to the Human Rights Council.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry then stated that by promoting its candidacy, Russia is trying to prove that “it can continue to grossly violate human rights, commit war crimes and crimes against humanity with impunity.”
On April 7, 2022, the publication recalls, the UN General Assembly supported a resolution to suspend the Russian Federation’s membership in the UN Human Rights Council, after which the Russian Federation made a statement about its “voluntary withdrawal” from the council.
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