On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on a proposal by the United States to exclude Russia from the UN Human Rights Council in retaliation for its aggression and invasion of Ukraine.

According to the UN General Assembly’s President’s Office, the 193-member UN body’s Emergency Special Session will reconvene on Thursday at 10 a.m., with decision on the draught resolution to suspend Russia expected.

The Human Rights Council is made up of 47 member states that are elected by secret vote by the majority of the General Assembly members.

The General Assembly “may suspend the rights of membership in the Council of a member of the Council who commits egregious and systematic abuses of human rights” with a two-thirds majority of the members present and voting.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters in Bucharest, Romania, that Washington would seek Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council in close coordination with Ukraine, European countries, and other UN allies.

“A hundred and forty UN Member States have already voted to condemn Russia’s unprovoked war and the humanitarian calamity it has wreaked on the Ukrainian people. My message to the 140 countries that have bravely united is simple: the images from Bucha and the devastation in Ukraine demand that we now back up our words with action” she added.