{"id":1406869,"date":"2022-03-29T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406869"},"modified":"2022-03-29T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:00:09","slug":"u-s-senators-want-russia-removed-from-u-n-human-rights-council-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-senators-want-russia-removed-from-u-n-human-rights-council-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senators want Russia removed from U.N. Human Rights Council -letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-senators-want-russia-removed-from-u-n-human-rights-council-letter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406869&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-29T121035Z_1_LYNXNPEI2S0LJ_RTROPTP_0_UKRAINE-CRISIS-UN-RIGHTS_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: An overview of the special session on the situation in Ukraine of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 4, 2022. REUTERS\/Denis Balibouse\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Patricia Zengerle<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2013     A dozen members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged President Joe Biden\u2019s administration to push for Russia\u2019s removal from the United Nations Human Rights Council, citing its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated Monday and seen by Reuters, the eight Democrats and four Republicans asked the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, to introduce a resolution to remove Russia from the rights body, citing widespread casualties in Ukraine and the destruction of residential buildings, hospital and schools.<\/p>\n<p>Support for Ukraine is one of the rare areas of bipartisan agreement in the bitterly divided U.S. Congress, which has approved billions of dollars in aide for the government in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwift action must be taken to show the world the United States and our allies will not stand for indiscriminate and unprovoked attacks on civilians and democracies. The time has come for Russia to no longer have a seat on the Council,\u201d said the letter, led by the committee\u2019s top Republican, Senator Jim Risch, and its Democratic chairman, Senator Bob Menendez.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, the senators said states engaging in a pattern of gross and systemic rights abuses can be removed by a two-thirds vote in the U.N. General Assembly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe implore you to introduce a resolution in the UN General Assembly to call for the removal of the Russian Federation from the UNHRC immediately,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, which has called its actions since Feb. 24 a \u201cspecial operation,\u201d has denied targeting civilians in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Stephen Coates)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: An overview of the special session on the situation in Ukraine of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 4, 2022. 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