The U.N. General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, but the total of 95 in favor with 24 no votes and 58 abstentions was a significant reduction from the 141 that voted in favor of last month’s nonbinding General Assembly measure condemning Russia’s “aggression” in Ukraine.
Screens show results from voting on April 7 by the United Nations General Assembly as member countries passed a resolution to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council because of its invasion of Ukraine and over allegations of human rights abuses by its troops.
But the total was a significant reduction from the 141 that voted in favor of last month’s nonbinding General Assembly measure condemning Russia’s “aggression” in Ukraine.On the other side, the 24 countries that opposed Thursday’s action — compared to five last month — included China, Iran, Vietnam, Algeria, Ethiopia, much of Central Asia and Cuba, all of which had previously abstained.
Singapore, which voted last month in favor of condemnation and whose prime minister visited with President Biden last week at the White House, said it was “gravely concerned and distressed” by recent reports and images from Bucha. But it explained its Thursday abstention as support for the “independent, international commission of inquiry” that the Human Rights Council has already established to investigate the alleged human rights abuses, and urged all countries to cooperate with it.
That architecture, centered in the Human Rights Council, historically has been one of the most troubled edifices in the U.N. system, long accused of the kind of pressure to take sides that some charged underlay the suspension vote. In 2018, President Donald Trump, as part of his broader effort to separate the United States from international institutions, withdrew from the council in protest of its censure of Israel and failure to criticize countries out of U.S. favor.
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