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It's an old vote from December 2013 when the protests were growing in Kiev and Russia had just signed a gas deal.
The bill entitled "Combating glorification of Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly" was adopted by the UN council but 4 countries voted against it.
Kiribati is a small country with a population of about 100,000 which gained independence (and I've got a feeling that should be in quotes) from the UK in 1979.
Palau runs under a Compact of Free Association with the US (since 1994) which means the US doesn't directly administer the place any more but still gets bases there that can't be refused. Since Palau almost always votes with the US the next Naysayer will be no surprise.
United States of America. It might be because the bill was put forward by Russia, or it might be because of the reason that Russia brought forward the bill and that is because by far the most effective fighting units that Kiev has (and the most loyal support of the government of Kiev) come from Nazi groups.
Canada. Stephen Harper has thrown his hat in with the militarists in the US. Whatever they do is fine by him. There is one tiny little sticking point though - he must have had to make a hard decision:
Israel voted YES.
Most US allies (erm, NATO and wannabe NATO states) chose to abstain.
The bill entitled "Combating glorification of Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly" was adopted by the UN council but 4 countries voted against it.
Kiribati is a small country with a population of about 100,000 which gained independence (and I've got a feeling that should be in quotes) from the UK in 1979.
Palau runs under a Compact of Free Association with the US (since 1994) which means the US doesn't directly administer the place any more but still gets bases there that can't be refused. Since Palau almost always votes with the US the next Naysayer will be no surprise.
United States of America. It might be because the bill was put forward by Russia, or it might be because of the reason that Russia brought forward the bill and that is because by far the most effective fighting units that Kiev has (and the most loyal support of the government of Kiev) come from Nazi groups.
Canada. Stephen Harper has thrown his hat in with the militarists in the US. Whatever they do is fine by him. There is one tiny little sticking point though - he must have had to make a hard decision:
Israel voted YES.
Most US allies (erm, NATO and wannabe NATO states) chose to abstain.
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