by decision of the representatives of the Member States of the General Assembly (General Assembly) of the United Nations, the United States returned to the UN Human Rights Council (UNFC). This is reported by TASS.
In addition to the United States, another 17 states have entered Cameroon, Eritrea, Gambia, Benin, Somalia, Qatar, UAE, Kazakhstan, India, Malaysia, Argentina, Paraguay, Honduras, Luxembourg, Finland, Lithuania and Montenegro. Voting passed on a non-alternative basis. The United States came out of the HVC in 2018 and returned after three years of absence.
To date, 47 states are consisting in the organization. One third of them is re-elected annually, including Russia. For its membership in the Council in October 2020, 158 countries voted.
On February 24, 2021, US President Joe Biden “Humbly” asked the Genasembly to allow him to return to the HCH. In 2018, the then American President Donald Trump decided to pay the US outcomes from the Council, accusing the SCC in biased to Israel, as well as condemning the membership of Venezuela membership, China and Cuba.