“This was about making it clear that being a voting member of the Human Rights Council is not consistent with Russia’s actions. Russia’s gross and systematic violations of human rights made a mockery of its membership.” Loading Western officials said the high number of abstaining nations showed the extent of Moscow’s bullying. A completed resolution vote tally to affirm the suspension of the Russian Federation from the UN Human Rights Council. A two-thirds majority of voting members in the 193-member UN General Assembly in New York – abstentions do not count – was needed to suspend Russia from the 47-member Geneva-based Human Rights Council. The breakdown of the vote to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.

Source: Libya Today April 07, 2022 18:37 UTC