The UN General Assembly on Thursday voted to remove Russia from the Human Rights Council, a proposal that was put forward by US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
The measure passed with 93 votes in favor, 24 against, and 58 abstentions. China, Russia, Belarus, and Iran were among the members that voted against the proposal, while India abstained. The move makes Russia the first permanent member of the UN Security Council to have its membership stripped from a UN body.
Thomas-Greenfield introduced the proposal after Russia was accused of massacring civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. Moscow strongly denies that it was responsible for the killings, and countries like India and China have called for independent investigations into the matter.
The Pentagon said this week that it can’t yet independently confirm Ukraine’s account of the atrocities in Bucha. On Tuesday, Julianne Smith, the US ambassador to NATO, said evidence was still being collected and that it is “too soon to say definitively what happened where.”
The UN Human Rights Council has 47 members who are elected by the General Assembly to serve a term of three years. The United Arab Emirates is currently a member of the council despite its role in the US-backed Saudi-led coalition that has been waging war on Yemen since 2015 and regularly kills civilians.
Another member of the Human Rights Council that has a history of killing civilians in conflicts is the US. Recent reporting from The New York Times revealed the massive civilian casualty rate in the US’s war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
The US and Israel pay no attention to the UN so why would Russia ?
I have never heard of the pot calling the kettle so black.
The Pentagon said this week that it can’t yet independently confirm Ukraine’s account of the atrocities in Bucha. On Tuesday, Julianne Smith, the US ambassador to NATO, said evidence was still being collected and that it is “too soon to say definitively what happened where.”
So why not wait? In the meantime, maybe some retroactive action against the US since Russia’s invasion pales in comparison to the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Washington don’t need no stinkin’ evidence.
Actually it was a vote against doing it if u count the once who didn’t vote at all, theabstentions and the negative votes.
Entire south Asia abstained. Qatar and Singapore abstained.
Everyday u see the dismantling of the unipolar world order
99 against 93 for
Abstentions don’t count in UN General Assembly votes of this type.
But the Russia regime did threaten consequences for regimes which abstained. So for purposes of evaluating attitudes, those abstentions are effective yes votes.
Russians r in a very weak position and if they r threatening countries that r trying to stay neutral and not jump on the bandwagon with the collective west(while being cajoled and threatened by us diplomats)… they have lost the plot.
Lithuania diverted covid vaccines they were donating to Bangladesh when it abstained on the first resolution, so now, Russia trying to bully the global south without the economic muscle is just idiotic
They can suspend Russia but the won’t investigate the allegations??
Just like the League of Nations, U.N. is useless when the WW3 breaks.
I wonder if Hitler and Putin are closely related? Apart from Hitler being much taller, one could be forgiven for believing Putin being a clone of Hitler.
Also, the nazi outfit that’s fighting in Ukraine goes by the name Wagner. A very fitting name for this bunch of lowlifes, as Wagner was one of Hitler’s favourite composers.