The 193-member UN General Assembly has voted on, and upheld, a US initiative to suspend Russia from the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council. A two-thirds majority of voting General Assembly members can suspend a country for committing gross and systematic violations of human rights. Russia was in its second year of a three-year term on the 47-member Human Rights Council.
The voting was as follows: 93 states in favour, 24 against, and 58 abstained.
UN General Assembly voting results
