UN Human Rights Council: Elections

(asked on 13th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government which state's candidacy they decided to support in the recent election to the UN Human Rights Council.


Answered by
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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 27th November 2017

The UK has a long-standing policy of not revealing our voting intentions in international elections, nor how we voted in the past. However, four out of five regional slates were uncontested this year, meaning the UK’s vote would not have affected the final result.

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