Russia is formally seeking to rejoin the UN Human Rights Council for a three-year term, nearly 18 months after it was expelled from the body over its invasion of Ukraine. The Russian position paper says that if Moscow is elected in the October 10 vote, it would use its membership “to prevent the increasing trend of turning the HRC into an instrument which serves the political will of one group of countries punishing non-loyal governments for their independent and external policy”.

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