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

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    10 hours ago

    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.