Russia sponsored it, despite being huge and present colonisers, but the text of the motion was pretty lacking.
France, China and the US are the other big two these days (excluding the more minor offenders and the ones that are more imperialist or genocidal than colonialist like Israel, Armenia and Azerbaijan), the US voting against is unsurprising, China like to reframe their colonialism as “Not Colonialism™” and France probably didn’t want to get the bad rep of voting against it.
2 votes against. U.S and Israel.
Damn, I missed that second (or rather third, after Alaska) red area. That image’s resolution is too small.
Not my top guesses, but not surprised either. I guessed the UK and Russia would’ve been opposed too.
Russia sponsored it, despite being huge and present colonisers, but the text of the motion was pretty lacking.
France, China and the US are the other big two these days (excluding the more minor offenders and the ones that are more imperialist or genocidal than colonialist like Israel, Armenia and Azerbaijan), the US voting against is unsurprising, China like to reframe their colonialism as “Not Colonialism™” and France probably didn’t want to get the bad rep of voting against it.