UNGA to vote on Thursday to droop Russia from UNHRC over Ukraine disaster

The UN General Assembly will vote on Thursday on a transfer by the US to droop Russia from the Human Rights Council of the world physique for its aggression and invasion of Ukraine.

The workplace of the President of the UN General Assembly mentioned that the Emergency Special Session of the 193-member UN physique will resume on Thursday at 10 A.M. and motion is predicted on the draft decision to droop Russia.

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The Human Rights Council consists of 47 Member States, elected straight and individually by secret poll by the vast majority of the members of the General Assembly. The General Assembly, by a two-thirds majority of the members current and voting, “may suspend the rights of membership in the Council of a member of the Council that commits gross and systematic violations of human rights.” US Ambassador at UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield had advised reporters in Bucharest, Romania that Washington, in shut coordination with Ukraine, European international locations and different companions on the UN, was going to hunt Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council.

“100 and forty UN Member States have already voted to sentence Russia over its unprovoked battle and the humanitarian disaster it has unleashed upon the individuals of Ukraine. My message to these 140 international locations who’ve courageously stood collectively is easy: the pictures out of Bucha and devastation throughout Ukraine require us now to match our phrases with motion.

“We cannot let a Member State that is subverting every principle we hold dear to continue to sit on the UN Human Rights Council,” she mentioned, as she referred to the UN Member States who voted in favour of General Assembly resolutions deploring Russian motion and demanding that Moscow instantly withdraw its forces and stop hostilities.

“Russia should not have a position of authority in that body, nor should we allow Russia to use their role on the Council as a tool of propaganda to suggest they have a legitimate concern about human rights… Russia’s participation on the Human Rights Council is a farce. It hurts the credibility of the Council and the UN writ large. And it is simply wrong. Which is why we believe it is time for the UN General Assembly to suspend them,” she mentioned.

India has unequivocally condemned the “deeply disturbing” stories of civilian killings within the Ukrainian metropolis of Bucha and supported the decision for an unbiased investigation, because it underlined that when harmless human lives are at stake, diplomacy should prevail as the one viable choice.