Lavrov: The Human Rights Council lost its credibility before the outbreak of events in Ukraine

Moscow-Sana

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asserted that the United Nations Human Rights Council discredited itself long before the outbreak of events in Ukraine.

"Russia withdrew by its decision from the Human Rights Council ... They were seeking to suspend our membership in it, so we decided to do it ourselves," TASS news agency quoted Lavrov as saying, adding that this council had lost its credibility and destabilized confidence in it long before the developments of the current situation in Ukraine.

The United Nations General Assembly held a special session on the seventh of last April and passed a resolution suspending Russia’s membership in the Human Rights Council, for Moscow to issue a decision on the same day to withdraw from it. The Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, Gennady Guzmin, said at the time: that a specific group of countries exploit and monopolize Human Rights Council serving its own interests.

Lavrov said that the 47 member states of the Council were elected by the General Assembly for a period of three years, adding that Russia was a member of it between 2006 and 2012 and then between 2014 and 2016 and was elected for another term on January 1, 2021.

Lavrov stressed the importance for Russia to rely on itself in important areas and stop receiving any supplies from the West to ensure the development of its sectors of great importance, noting that Moscow will add impetus to its economic cooperation with China "after the West took the position of a dictator," pointing out that this would give Russia the opportunity. To implement plans for the rise of the Far East and Eastern Siberia.

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