Russia’s involvement in the anti-terrorist campaign in Syria has prompted calls to the UN to deprive Russia of its seat on the UN’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Russia is currently in the UNHRC, but its membership expires this year.
The signatories asked the UN member states to, “question seriously whether Russia’s role in Syria which includes supporting and undertaking military actions which have routinely targeted civilians and civilian objects renders it fit to serve on the UN’s premier inter-governmental human rights institution.”
A resolution was introduced to the UNHRC by the UK and its Western and Arab allies demanding a review into alleged human rights violations in the Syrian city of Aleppo. A vote was taken to start an independent special inquiry into the situation in Aleppo.
Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, has called the resolution’s accusations “cynical” and “dishonorable.”
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