Saudi Arabia fails to join UN human rights council but Russia and China elected

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Saudi Arabia fails to join UN human rights council but Russia and China elected

Result follows warnings from human rights groups that UN body’s credibility at stake

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Tue 13 Oct 2020 20.13 BST

Russia and China have been elected to the UN human rights council for the next three years, but Saudi Arabia failed in its attempt to win a place on the 47-seat body.

The result is a severe blow to the country’s efforts to improve its image in the wake of the admitted killing of the Saudi citizen and Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi.

Pakistan and Cuba were also elected in the secret ballot on Tuesday conducted at the UN headquarters in New York to fill 15 vacant seats, which are distributed between five regions. France and the UK were elected unopposed to represent Europe.

The vote largely works by countries within regions reaching private bargains on the nation states that will stand – often with the aim of ensuring that all the candidates stand unopposed within their region.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/13/saudi-arabia-fails-to-join-un-human-rights-council-but-russia-and-china-elected

[Thekaspervote]

1. Shameful that China and Russia were allowed in!

Poisonings, interment camps, what’s going on in Hong Kong..frankly right now we shouldn’t be allowed in!!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Ha! Imagine Saudi Arabia on the UN Council for Human Rights after what

MSB did to Jamal Khasshogi.