A vote on whether or not to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council will happen on Thursday, said the spokesperson for the president of the United Nations General Assembly, APA reports citing CNN.
The UN General Assembly will resume its Emergency Special Session Thursday morning. The meeting will be open and speeches will be available on camera through UNTV, said Paulina Kubiak Greer.
The United States ambassador to the United Nations made a case for seeking the suspension of Russia from the Human Rights Council in front of the UN Security Council Tuesday, something she and other UN member states are calling for.
“Russia should not have a position of authority in a body whose purpose — whose very purpose — is to promote respect for human rights,” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said addressing the council Tuesday. “Russia’s participation on the Human Rights Council hurts the council’s credibility. It undermines the entire UN. And it is just plain wrong.”
The Human Rights Council sits in Geneva. The UN General Assembly would need to vote in favor by two-thirds to remove Russia from the HRC.
The US Ambassador to the United Nations told CNN on Wednesday that she is confident that the US has the support from other member states required to suspend Russia from the UN’s Human Rights Council.
“We've been working very hard since this war started to build a coalition of countries who are prepared to condemn Russia," told Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield . "I know that we’ll get the two thirds required to win this."
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