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Russia loses seat on UN Human Rights Council by just 2 votes

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Russia loses seat on UN Human Rights Council by 2 votes - CNNPolitics.com

United Nations (CNN) For years, UN countries seeking to stop Russia from assisting the Assad regime militarily in Syria have been blocked by Moscow's veto power as a permanent UN Security Council member. But on Friday at the UN, opponents of Russia's punishing assaults in Syria achieved a small symbolic victory.

Russia was defeated in its bid to be re-elected as a member of the UN's Human Rights Council, the most prestigious panel in the UN system designed to examine global human rights.

But it was close. Russia lost to Croatia by just two votes, 114 to 112, with Hungary claiming the Eastern Europe region's other remaining seat. UN General Assembly voted in a secret balloting process that has no vetoes.

The United States and United Kingdom also won seats on the rights panel.
UN Watch, a UN watchdog group, said after the vote that "the non-election of Russia shows that the nations of the world can reject gross abusers if they so choose."
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How about we just make the Scandinavian countries and Finland the permanent chairs?
 
Jesse Booth said:
Well it was about damn time. I'm still pretty concerned by how many votes Russia got, but I'll take what I can get.
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It is amazing that the UNHRC would actually act on Syria against Russia.
 
Cardinal said:
How about we just make the Scandinavian countries and Finland the permanent chairs?
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It was the Scandinavians that gave Obama the Peace Prize. They do great PR,though.
 
joG said:
It was the Scandinavians that gave Obama the Peace Prize. They do great PR,though.
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Scandinavians also have cold weather a large percentage of the year. So?
 
Cardinal said:
Scandinavians also have cold weather a large percentage of the year. So?
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You think living in cold weather indicates as bad judgement as awarding that Peace Prize, or is it that cold weather explains the good PR because the people have to sit in doors so much. ;)
 
joG said:
You think living in cold weather indicates as bad judgement as awarding that Peace Prize, or is it that cold weather explains the good PR because the people have to sit in doors so much. ;)
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I think cold weather is as relevant to Scandinavia, Iceland and Finland as your posts are to this thread.
 
Cardinal said:
I think cold weather is as relevant to Scandinavia, Iceland and Finland as your posts are to this thread.
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Don't let ideology queer your pitch. ;)
 
joG said:
Don't let ideology queer your pitch. ;)
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There's that old jog we're all familiar with: when you don't know where you're going in the thread, just start being incoherent. You went the path of incoherence in three posts. That's about right for you.
 
Cardinal said:
There's that old jog we're all familiar with: when you don't know where you're going in the thread, just start being incoherent. You went the path of incoherence in three posts. That's about right for you.
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'just a comment on the absurd senselessness of the Scandinavian Solution.
 
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