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Russia fails in bid to return to UN’s Human Rights Council

UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis reads out the results of the election to the Human Rights Council [Bryan R Smith/AFP]

Russia has failed in its bid to return to the United Nations top human rights body 18 months after it was suspended in the wake of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In a secret ballot of the General Assembly’s 193 members, Bulgaria emerged with 160 votes and Albania 123, giving each country a three-year term on the Human Rights Council starting from January 1.

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