Russia put forward its candidacy for membership of the UN Human Rights Council for 2021-2023, the Russian Permanent Mission to the United Nations said on Wednesday.
“Russia will continue its effective work in the Human Rights Council to maintain equal dialogue and cooperation in the human rights sphere. For this purpose, Russia has proposed its candidacy for membership of the Human Rights Council for 2021-2023,” First Secretary of the Russian Mission to the United Nations, Fedor Strzhizhovskiy, said.
As we said we would do a year ago, if we did not see any progress, the United States is officially withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council,” Haley told reporters.
The US ambassador continued, “In doing so, I want to make it crystal clear that this step is not a retreat from human rights commitments.”
Haley added that there is a chronic bias against Israel at the UN Human Rights Council.
