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Saudi envoy: Suspension of Russia from Human Rights Council is an ‘escalatory step’
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NEW YORK, 08 April 2022, (TON): Saudi Arabia described a move by the UN General Assembly to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council as an escalatory step “further aggravates an already tense situation.”
The Kingdom stressed that human rights issues should not be subject to selectivity, double standards or politicization.
The Saudi deputy permanent representative to the UN, Mohammed Abdulaziz Alateek said “the move was not only a form of politicization, it was unilateral in nature in that it gives certain states more rights than others.”
The General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the 47-member Human Rights Council over “gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights.”
In the vote on the motion, led by the US, 93 countries voted in favor, 24 against and 58, including Saudi Arabia, abstained.
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