Russia has no seat in the UN Human Rights Council, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said on Tuesday.
“I spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres about the current security situation and the massacre in Bouka,” Kouleba said on Twitter.
“I emphasize that Ukraine will use all available UN mechanisms to gather evidence and hold Russian war criminals accountable. “There is no place for Russia in the UN Human Rights Council,” he said.
The United States and Britain yesterday demanded a “suspension” of Russia’s participation in the UN forum following the “images from Bukha”, where hundreds of civilian bodies were found after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
The two countries intend to put the issue to a vote in the UN “as soon as possible – this week, possibly starting on Thursday,” US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told NPR. development will have practical, in addition to symbolic, value.
London favors US initiative .
Asked about UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s position on the Washington-London initiative, Farhan Haq’s spokesman appeared to be in a difficult position. “We will leave it to the Member States to decide,” he said, adding that “the concern” is “the precedent for such an action”. When he was pressured to give clarifications, he avoided it.
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, called the US-British initiative “unbelievable.” “This is unprecedented,” he said, adding that the ongoing effort to exclude Moscow from international fora “would neither facilitate nor encourage nor facilitate” Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
Kyiv and Western countries have denied that the Russian military committed war crimes on the outskirts of Kiev, something the Russian government denies by talking about “directed provocations.”
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