The resolution was approved by more than 150 countries, while Portugal abstained from voting
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The resolution was approved by more than 150 countries, while Portugal abstained from voting.
DisputedContradicted by: A guest notes that about 120 countries voted for the UN reso…What the source said
Contra-Corrente (Observador)Portugal, o tráfico de escravo e os pedidos de indemnizações“quando o país, um dos países que está por trás disto, talvez o país que está mesmo por trás disto, que encabeça esta campanha, que é o GANA, fez aprovar, ou propôs e acabou por fazer aprovar na Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas uma resolução que foi em que Portugal se absteve, estranhamente se absteve,”
Machine translation: when the country, one of the countries behind this, perhaps the very country behind it, which heads this campaign, which is GANA, made approve, or proposed and ended up having approved in the UN General Assembly a resolution that Portugal abstained from, strangely abstained
Listen from 2:13Is this point wrong? Tell usContra-Corrente (Observador)Tráfico de escravos: quem deve pagar as reparações? — Debate“aquela resolução foi aprovada por mais de 150 países e, por extraordinário que pareça, Portugal absteve -se.”
That resolution was approved by more than 150 countries and, extraordinarily, Portugal abstained
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A guest notes that about 120 countries voted for the UN resolution, 50 abstained and three (including Israel and the United States) voted against it.
DisputedContradicted by: The resolution was approved by more than 150 countries, whil…What the source said
Is this point wrong? Tell usContra-Corrente (Observador)Tráfico de escravos: quem deve pagar as reparações? — Debate“Se nós virmos estes 120 e tal países que votam a favor os 5... 123. 123, os 50 que se abstêm e os 3 radicais que votam contra, o Millay e Israel, muito dependentes dos Estados Unidos, que votam contra,”
Machine translation: If we look at those 120 or so countries that vote in favour, the 50 that abstain and the 3 radicals that vote against, the Millay and Israel, very dependent on the United States, that vote against
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