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Russia Loses One Of UN Prestigious Seat by petersfleming: 10:51pm On Oct 29, 2016 |
United Nations (CNN) — For years, UN countries
seeking to stop Russia from assisting the Assad
regime militarily in Syria have been blocked by
Moscow's veto power as a permanent UN Security
Council member. But on Friday at the UN, opponents
of Russia's punishing assaults in Syria achieved a
small symbolic victory.
Russia was defeated in its bid to be re-elected as a
member of the UN's Human Rights Council, the most
prestigious panel in the UN system designed to
examine global human rights.
But it was close. Russia lost to Croatia by just two
votes, 114 to 112, with Hungary claiming the Eastern
Europe region's other remaining seat. UN General
Assembly voted in a secret balloting process that
has no vetoes.
The United States and United Kingdom also won
seats on the rights panel.
UN Watch, a UN watchdog group, said after the vote
that "the non-election of Russia shows that the
nations of the world can reject gross abusers if they
so choose."
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Dozens of human rights groups had campaigned
against Moscow's bid, citing the massive bombing
assault on parts of Syria opposed to the government
of its close ally, President Bashar al-Assad. An
estimated 400,000 people have died in the Syrian
conflict.
Moscow's refusal to accept Security Council
resolutions framed to seek the end of the war
seemed to be a factor in Russia's failure to gain
support for the council seat from others in the UN.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner, noting that
he wasn't referring to Russia specifically said that
"we continue to believe that UN member states
should seek countries that have a strong human
rights record to be a part of the council."
Human Rights Watch's UN director, Louis
Charbonneau said, after Hungary and Croatia beat
out Russia in their regional contest, that the vote
"also shows how important it is to have competitive
slates in UN elections. Countries should have a
chance to reject those whose candidacies are so
severely compromised, as they did today."
RELATED: US, Russia spar amid charges of war
crimes in Syria
It's rare for one of the five powerful permanent UN
Security Council member nations to lose any UN
election.
However, the United States, too, experienced such
defeat in 2001, when the US failed to win a seat on
the UN Human Rights Commission, which the council
later replaced.
Human rights advocates, however, did lose their
campaign to stop Saudi Arabia from being re-
elected.
The Mideast power has recently been accused of
major human rights violations in its onslaught in
neighboring Yemen. But it was nearly impossible for
Saudi Arabia to lose, having already been selected as
one of the four Asia-Pacific region countries to run
for that region's four allocated slots.
China and Cuba also won seats.
UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said the re-
election of Saudi Arabia, China and Cuba "casts a
shadow upon the reputation of the United Nations."
CNN's Elise Labott and Casey Riddle contributed to this report |
Re: Russia Loses One Of UN Prestigious Seat by slivertongue: 11:02pm On Oct 29, 2016 |
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Re: Russia Loses One Of UN Prestigious Seat by KMB: 1:24am On Oct 30, 2016 |
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Re: Russia Loses One Of UN Prestigious Seat by EdoBoy90(m): 4:14pm On Oct 31, 2016 |
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