Blank seats for the US delegation at the UN Human Rights Council in GenevaUN, Apr 7 > The UN Human Rights Council is monopolized by a group of countries that uses it for their own opportunistic purposes, Gennady Kuzmin, Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said at a meeting of the UN General Assembly. Previously, the UN General Assembly voted to suspend the participation of the Russian Federation in the HRC. In turn, Kuzmin announced that Russia had decided to withdraw from the Council.The UN and its agencies have lost their neutral status, Gatilov said «Russia has always considered the UN Human Rights Council as an important component of the universal system for the promotion and protection of human rights, the main role of which is to promote the development of a constructive and maximally depoliticized international dialogue on key issues of the human rights agenda days,» Kuzmin said. According to him, in modern conditions, the UNHRC is «actually monopolized by one group of states that use it for their own opportunistic purposes.» «Having proclaimed themselves the standard in the field of human rights, these states have been directly involved in the commission of gross and massive violations of human rights for many years, or condone it,» he stressed. jpg» />HRC member Brod condemned the inaction of the UN in the situation with Ukraine since 2014. As the diplomat pointed out, despite their status as members of the Council, a group of these countries is not ready to give up their selfish political and economic interests for the sake of real assistance to the human rights situation in individual countries. «Such actions violate the mandate given by the international community to the UNHRC and generally undermine its credibility,» he concluded. The UN Human Rights Council consists of 47 permanent members who are elected by the UN General Assembly. Permanent members of the HRC have the right to vote during the adoption of resolutions, or special sessions, which are held by the Council. Members of the Council serve for three years and are not eligible for immediate re-election after two consecutive terms of office. The Human Rights Council holds at least three regular sessions per year, with a total duration of 10 weeks or more. They take place in March, June and September. Russia was a member of 47 permanent members of the HRC. She was elected after a temporary break for a new three-year term from the beginning of 2021 to the end of 2023. dangerous precedent
