The United Nations General Assembly will vote on Thursday to suspend Russia membership in The global body’s leading human rights organization over Russians military massacre of civilians as they withdraw from area About the Ukrainian capital.
US Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield made The call for Russia should be stripped of her seat on The 47-member Human Rights Council in waking up of Videos and photos of Streets in City of Bucha scatter with corpses of Apparently they are civilians. It caused the deaths global disgust and supplications for tougher Penalties on Russia, which has vehemently denied that its forces are responsible.
“We believe that the members of Russian forces committed war crimes in “Ukraine, and we think Russia needs to be held accountable,” Thomas Greenfield said Monday. Russia’s participation on The Human Rights Council is a farce.”
General Assembly spokeswoman Paulina Kubik said that the state of emergency in the assembly special session on Ukraine will resume Thursday morning, when a decision “to suspend rights” is issued of membership in Human Rights Council of Russian Federation “to a vote.
While the Human Rights Council has its headquarters in Geneva, its members elected by the General Assembly of 193 countries for three-year terms. March 2006 resolution establishing the Bill of Rights says The assembly may be suspended membership rights of A state that “commits grave and systematic violations” of human rights.”
On the short decision vote on Expresses its “grave concern about the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, especially in the reports of Violations and abuses of Human rights and their violations of international Humanitarian law by the Russian Federation, including gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights.”
Approval requires a two-thirds majority of Assembly members that vote “Yes or no,” with Abstentions do not count in the account.
The General Assembly voted 140 to 5 with 38 members abstained from voting on March 24 on A decision to blame Russia for humanitarian crisis in Ukraine urges the immediate cessation of the following-fire And the protection for millions of Civilians, homes, schools and hospitals critical for their survival.
The vote It was almost the same for Resolution on March 2, adopted by the Council calling for Russia to immediately halt-firewithdrawal of all its forces and protection for All civilians. who – which vote was 141-5 with 35 members abstained from voting.
Thomas Greenfield urged the 140 . members who Been voted in favor of These two decisions to support Suspension of Russia’s membership in the Human Rights Council.
The issue She said simple: “Pictures out of Require Buka and destruction across Ukraine us now for match our words with Action.”
We cannot allow a Member State to subvert every principle we hold dear to continue to sit. on United Nations Human Rights Council.
supporters of The decision was optimistic about its approval, but not necessarily with The support of 140 countries.
called Russia on Unspecified number of countries to vote “No,” abstaining or not voting would be considered an unfriendly act and would affect bilateral relations.
In a so-called “non-paper” obtained by the Associated Press (AP), Russia said the attempt to expel it from the Human Rights Council is political and supports it. countries who – which want To maintain their dominant position and control over The world.
those countries want to continue” politics of neo-colonialism of human rights” in international She said that Russia’s priority is to promote and defend human rights, including multilateral rights in Human Rights Council.
Russia’s ambassador in Geneva, Gennady Gatilov, described the US action as “purely sentimental bravado that seems baseless good on camera – just how The United States loves him.”
Washington is taking advantage of the Ukrainian crisis for its own interest in Attempt to either exclude or suspend Russia from international organizations,” Gatilov said, in Remarks by a Russian diplomat mission official speaker.
Russia and the other four veto-wielding members of The United Nations Security Council – Britain, China, France and the United States – all currently Seating on The Human Rights Council, to which the United States rejoined year.
The only country that has membership Stripped of her rights in the Council was Libya in 2011, when the turmoil in The North African country brought down Council spokesman Rolando Gomez said longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi.
There is no permanent member of The Security Council has ever membership Canceled from any United Nations body.
