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United Nations Human Rights Council building in GenevaMEXICO, Apr 8Venezuela condemns the UN General Assembly resolution suspending Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council as damaging multilateralism and mutual understanding in the world, said Venezuelan diplomat Felix Plasencia. Charter and rejects the decision to suspend Russia's membership in the UN Human Rights Council,» the diplomat wrote on his Twitter blog. Earlier, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution suspending Russia's participation in the UNHRC. The decision, taken because of Russia's actions in Ukraine, deprived the Russian Federation of the right to vote and the right to speak on the council. In response, Russia announced that it was terminating its powers in the HRC. According to the Venezuelan minister, the resolution of the General Assembly negatively affects the multilateral nature of international relations and the prospects for dialogue with Russia, destroys the necessary bridges for mutual understanding and seriously threatens security, order and global peace.Vučić explained why Serbia supported the freeze of Russia's participation in the UN HRC «Today we condemn the intensification of attacks on the multilateral world order, which limit our exercise of our inalienable right to vote in the UN through the illegal imposition of unilateral coercive measures and affect our active contribution to peacemaking,» Plasencia added .Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.