Russia faces a strong blow from the US

New Delhi: The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday (April 7)approved a resolution suspending Russia’s membership in Human RightsCouncil.

The 193-member General Assembly voted to adopt the US-led resolutionsuspending Russia from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the worldbody’s top human rights organisation. 93 nations voted in favour of theresolution, 58 including India abstained, while 24 countries voted againstthe draft resolution.

A two-thirds majority of voting members was required to suspend Russia fromthe 47-member UNHRC.

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The resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly draft expressed “graveconcern at the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine,”Reuters reported.