Russia is in its second year of a three-year term on the 47-member Human Rights Council
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UNITED NATIONS- The 193-member U.N. General Assembly will vote on Thursday on a U.S. push to suspend Russia from the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, diplomats said.
A two-thirds majority of voting General Assembly members in New York can suspend a country for committing gross and systematic violations of human rights.
Russia is in its second year of a three-year term on the 47-member Human Rights Council.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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