Vaccine Delivery Canceled to Country That Did Not Condemn Russia

[TheProle]

One country's decision to abstain from condemning Russia has now cost it a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines.

On Wednesday, the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in favor of condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and demanding immediate withdrawal, with 141 out of the 193 members nations voting in favor of the resolution. Five nations voted against it, including Russia itself, Belarus, North Korea, Syria, and Eritrea. The remaining 35 countries abstained from the vote.

Among the abstaining members was the South Asian country of Bangladesh. As a result of that decision, Lithuania reversed a previous decision from earlier in the week to send over 440,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Bangladesh, according to a report from Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT). This was confirmed to LRT by a spokesperson for Lithuanian prime minister Ingrida Šimonytė.

https://www.newsweek.com/vaccine-delivery-canceled-country-that-did-not-condemn-russia-1685561

[ColinC]

1. Kinda screwed up

"your government didn't symbolically comndemn another country, so now a buncha you are going to die for it.

[elleng]

5. Yes

[Skittles]

2. this seems.....a bit ridiculous

a virus doesn't care who you support or don't support

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. +1

[Meowmee]

3. needs to be reversed or they get vaccines elsewhere

[Kali]

4. not a good punishment

self damaging if goal is to stop the pandemic and try to avoid new variants

[CentralMass]

6. Not a good thing.

[OnDoutside]

8. Not in everyone's interest

[rockfordfile]

9. Didn't money come from that country to those anti-democracy "truckers"?