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February 25, 2023

AFRICA STORIES: ANTI-RUSSIAN RESOLUTION AT UNITED NATIONS (STATISTICAL BREAKDOWN)

Yesterday, I wrote about the passing of a UN General Assembly resolution asking Russia to withdraw from Ukraine by majority (~73%) of the 193 countries that constitute the United Nations. Among those who voted for the "anti-Russia" resolution were Brazil, Indonesia, Argentina and Saudi Arabia. Every single one of these mentioned countries have good relations with Russia, especially Brazil which is part of the BRICS

Breakdown of the reaction to the UN resolution Among All 54 African countries:

  • 30 voted for the resolution (56% of African countries)
  • 15 voted to abstain (28% of African countries)
  • 7 didn't bother to cast any vote (13% of African countries)
  • 2 voted against the resolution (4% of African countries)

As seen above, 56% of African states for the resolution asking Russia to withdraw from Ukraine.This is not a measure of hostility, but one of principle (i.e. respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity).

However, the remaining 47% of African states decided to either vote against the resolution; voted to abstain from the resolution; or did not even bother to attend UN General Assembly where the vote was taking place.

So why did a significant minority of African states refuse to throw Russia under the metaphorical bus? The answer to that question can be found by clicking at the link below:

https://theduran.locals.com/post/3577395/africa-stories-anti-russian-resolution-adopted-at-united-nations-as-expected-a-un-general-assemb

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My friends, as you all know, for technical reasons it proved impossible to do our weekly Live Stream yesterday. Unfortunately the systems failed us again.

Firstly, I would like to thank you all of you for your patience and kindness, even as a promised Live Stream had to be called off.

Secondly, I particularly want to thank Zarael for stepping into the breach, making it possible for us (him and me) to do an excellent programme together for the Duran Community on Locals when the Live Stream should have taken place.

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My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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