UN, May 12 – RIA Novosti, Dmitry Gornostaev. Russia for the second time elected to the Council on Human Rights (HRC) to the General Assembly on Tuesday, also first elected to the HRC in the United States, the correspondent said.
Russia, won 146 votes out of 191, United States – 167 votes.
HRC has replaced the UN Commission on Human Rights. In accordance with General Assembly resolution of 15 March 2006, it consists of 47 members elected annually for three years from the regional groups.
Russia is included in the HRC since its establishment, the first term of its membership will expire in June 2009. For the two seats from the Eastern European countries, besides Russia, candidates did not pass in the HRC Azerbaijan (89 votes) and Hungary (131 votes).
United States this year, first elected to the Human Rights Council. The decision to nominate his country was received by President Barack Obama.
previous administration of George Bush with a new body of the UN refused to participate fully in its work in connection with criticism of the foreign and domestic policy in Washington, particularly in relation with the initiation of military action in Iraq in violation of the UN Charter, torture of prisoners and the death penalty. Þñ Ñ Ñ‚Ã¾Ã¼ ýõþôýþúрðтýþ Ã³Ã¾Ã²Ã¾Ñ€Ã¸Ã»Ã¾Ñ ÑŒ ò ôþúûðôðх áßç þ Ñ Ã¸Ñ‚уðцøø Ñ Ã¿Ñ€Ã°Ã²Ã°Ã¼Ã¸ чõûþòõúð ò üøрõ. Monitoring for compliance in all 192 UN member countries is the main task of the HRC.
addition to the Russian Federation and United States, at a meeting on Tuesday Genassambleya chose HRC Bangladesh, Belgium, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Hungary, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and Uruguay.
not found sufficient support for Malaysia, Switzerland, Greece and New Zealand.
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