2023-10-09 07:28:28
06:35: Russia tries to return to the UN Human Rights Council
Russia, excluded from the UN Human Rights Council after its invasion of Ukraine, will try to make a return there, an uncertain bet which will make it possible to assess its support on the international scene. The UN General Assembly will elect 15 new members of this Geneva-based body on Tuesday for the period 2024-2026.
While its 47 members are distributed by major region, each regional group generally preselects its candidates who are then approved without difficulty by the General Assembly. But this year, two groups have more candidates than seats: Latin America (Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Peru candidates for 3 seats) and Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria and Russia for 2 seats) .
To be elected, a country needs 97 votes out of the 193 member states. The particularity of the vote is that it will take place by secret ballot, in a fragmented world where many countries are tiring of the attention paid to Ukraine by the West.
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