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The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution.
World’s largest settler colony votes in favour of colonialism. More at 11
For some reason this comment helped me relax a bit about this. Wild how slow progress is
Somewhat more surprising is the historical king of colonizers didn’t vote in favor of it.
The US supplanted the UK as the de facto leader of the imperial core after WW2, and specially after the Suez crisis.
The UK can’t afford to antagonize the world by directly voting against international will anymore like the US now can, hence them (and Switzerland) only abstaining.