The General Assembly needed to vote in favor by two-thirds of the countries present and voting to remove Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.
The United States ambassador to the United Nations made a case for seeking the suspension of Russia from the Human Rights Council in front of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, something she and other UN member states have been pushing.
"Russia should not have a position of authority in a body whose purpose -- whose very purpose -- is to promote respect for human rights.
"Every day, we see more and more how little Russia respects human rights," she said.
Ultimately she argued, "Russia's participation on the Human Rights Council hurts the Council's credibility.
It might seem that we should have named it the Titanic instead of the Human Rights Council.
The Russian representative said the vote on suspending Russia from the Human Rights Council "is an attempt by the United States to maintain its dominant position and total control to continue its attempt at human rights colonialism in international relations.". »