this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
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Always the Same Map

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Its always the same map.

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What's up with Malawi? Is there some ultra pro west government in charge or something?

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[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Can you provide a source for the vote? The best I can find is 78/190 from last year (source: https://research.un.org/en/docs/ga/quick/regular/78) and that resolution had contained this unfortunate clause, which many of the countries had spoken after their vote to disassociate from:

  1. Notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism;

Excerpt of China's statement, for instance:

We are deeply concerned about the practice by a small number of countries of politicizing certain agenda items in the Third Committee. In view of that, China dissociates itself from the consensus on paragraph 4 of resolution 78/190.

In addition, that vote doesn't match the map you provide.

Also the United States' remarks on 78/190 were very telling:

We also do not need to repeat our long-standing position on this annual resolution. We have been one of several countries to vote against it from the very beginning.

[–] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Oh, got it, it's a Third Committee vote. UN press release: https://press.un.org/en/2024/gashc4428.doc.htm

Disappointing they had to add paragraph 4 again