UN General Assembly suspends Russia from human rights council

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*Ukraine thanks UN for suspending Russia from Human Rights Council

*Suspension has no evidence to make impact on Moscow – Analyst

*Says Nigeria takes honourable stand by absenting

*Voting does not change our position to UN Human Rights Council – Israel

By KEMI KASUMU with international news agencies

In a manner that has been subject of mixed feelings among international politics analysis, the United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday as to whether or not to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) as punishment for Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine.

Expectedly, it was learnt, out of the 193 members of the assembly, 93 voted in favour of suspension, 24 voted against and 58 abstained.

The DEFENDER’s investigations revealed that Russia is the second country to earn such suspension from the UNHRC, Libya being the first in 2011.

It will be recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made himself clear from the beginning that there was no option available to him than to fight the threat to his country’s national security and interest as a result of encroachment via Ukraine, by United States of America-led Northern Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aiming to bring Russia down to its kneels, despite its tolerance since the Cold War of 1990.

Interestingly, it was further gathered, the two countries that have been suspended so far are a country that majority of countries of the world, whether they come openly or underground, believe have been cheated with, essentially, pointer to the NATO’s invasion of Libya during which, not only the country was destroyed, people civillians killed but also, the President of the country, Mammaur Gaddafi was killed in cold blood for no justifiable reason till present other than, more popular in public discourse, the fact that the invasion of Libya was due to the fact that Gadddafi led the movement for liberation of Africa leading to the creation United States of Africa changed later to the African Union (UN).

Those countries that invaded Libya are still on the UN Human Rights Council.

Israel, which few days ago, made Russia’s new list of ’52 friend countries’ that Kremlin lifted Coronavirus restrictions flights to now go, was one of the backers of its suspension during the Thursday voting on the floor of the UNGA.

What we found out at The DEFENDER was that voting at the UNGA Thursday of Israel may be of no significance as, according to its Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, it does not change its position towards the council it described as a body of extremist.

The Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says in a statement that, “The vote today does not change our position toward the UNHRC, a body that is extremist, morally deficient, biased and anti-Israeli at its core, and which has been used since its founding as a political tool by countries that are the world’s chief rights abusers, among other things, to attack Israel.”

He spoke just as another reaction to the voting dismissed the suspension from UN human rights council as going to be of no impact on Moscow.

Our cross-check revealed that this time, Nigeria, which voted the last time in favour of Moscow stopping the war in Ukraine rather absented from Thursday UNGA voting, a development that many Nigerians and friends of Nigeria have described as better way to take a stand.

Nigeria, obvious reasons, is a country that is not available to be enemy to any country, not China, not Russia because, like those two countries and other world leaders that have been of useful development partnership, any foreign policy that will bring good to its people is where it stand, we gathered.

Ukraine thanks UN for suspending Russia

Ukraine’s foreign minister welcomed a decision by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday to suspend Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council over reports of violations and abuses of human rights by its troops in Ukraine.

“War criminals have no place in UN bodies aimed at protecting human rights. Grateful to all member states which supported the relevant UNGA resolution and chose the right side of history,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter.

Russia denies the allegations against its troops and calls the invasion a “special military operation.”


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