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Member States Vote to Reinstate Libya as Member of UN Human Rights Council

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–18 November 2011.  United Nations Member States voted overwhelmingly today to readmit Libya as a member of the UN Human Rights Council, eight months after the North African country was suspended for its then government’s violent repression of a popular protest movement.

In a ballot in the General Assembly this morning, 123 countries voted in favour of the restoration of Libyan membership to the Council, four countries voted against, and six States abstained.

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