"This decision has no direct consequences. It’s only symbolic," echoes Guy Mettan, a Swiss politician and journalist and former executive director of the Geneva Press Club. "The idea is to disparage Russia and to show its international isolation. It’s an episode of the propaganda war launched by the Western strategic communication against Russia."
'UNGA Should Boot US from UNHRC Over Invasion Spree'
"To be credible, the UN general Assembly should have taken a similar decision for the (attested) US war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Vietnam, Iraq (around 500 000 children killed by sanctions and bombings), Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya or even Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), and by any other country which has committed attested and supposed war crimes (for instance during colonial wars)," says the politician.