We can make their presence in that body very uncomfortable and we have done that, and we are working to kick them off or to suspend them from the Human Rights Council.
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield discusses efforts to isolate Russia in the U.N. and suspend them from the Human Rights Council.
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Putin wants the world to travel back in time to a time before the United Nations, to a time when empires rule the world. But the rest of the world has moved forward. It is not 1919. It is 2022.
So, we don`t want to treat them, even though they are a permanent member of the security council, they are not behaving with the responsibility that we would expect of a permanent member of the Security Council.
So, now, let me be clear, the United States will never recognize any territory Russia attempts to seize or allegedly annex, as anything other than parts of Ukraine. We reject Russia's actions unequivocally.





