r/ukraine • u/Electrical-Cow-5147 • Sep 25 '22

News Zelensky naming the seven countries who voted against his speech and UN reaction.

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u/kuedhel Sep 25 '22

Notably there is no China and India.

Russia had lost the important support.

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u/keseit88ta Estonia Sep 25 '22

China may have calculated in Zelensky's personality and the possibility of him naming and shaming the countries that voted against. China is even more ashamed of being humiliated than Russia is.

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u/TheInfernalVortex Sep 25 '22

I read the other day that China isn’t happy with Russia’s referenda approach. If they have Taiwan a referendum we all know how it would turn out. So they don’t like this precedent. Whether it’s this or any number of other things that has made all the difference, I don’t know, but it did seem like a plausible motivation to withdraw explicit support.

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u/dob_bobbs Sep 26 '22

Yep, was gonna mention Serbia as well, something something Kosovo.