Russia stays out of the UN Human Rights Council

Russia was left out this Tuesday UN Human Rights Councilwhere he hoped to return after being expelled in 2022 for his invasion of Ukraine.

The country faced Albania It is Bulgaria occupy one of the two seats that were offered today to the regional group of Eastern Europe in the body, which has its headquarters in Geneva (Swiss).

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Other controversial candidates managed to win a seat, such as China and Cubain addition to countries like France, Netherlands, Ivory Coast and Japanwhich had no competition, after voting at the headquarters of the United Nations General Assemblyin New York.

Russia He received just 83 of the 97 votes needed to win the position. China reached 154 and Cuba, 146.

The vote was secret, so it is not known which countries voted in favor of the candidates.

In addition to Russia, only Russia was left out of the Peruvian Human Rights Council. The South American country obtained 108 votes, more than the 97 needed, but less than the rest of the candidates to occupy the three positions offered for the region. Latin America and the Caribbean: Cuba, Brazil and the Dominican Republic.

Thus, the final list of countries that managed to get a seat on the Human Rights Council in the following three years were Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, China, Ivory Coast, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Malawi and the Netherlands.

The organization Human Rights Surveillance had asked representatives of the UN vote blank or abstain from voting Chinawhich also had no competition in its group, and accused the authorities of Beijing in “detain your critics, make them disappear or harass them when they are abroad.”

The entity also spoke out against Cuba’s entry through “the thousand political prisoners” who are detained in the country’s prisons.

Source: Elcomercio

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