Brazil defends Trump at UN meeting to create inquiry to investigate racism crimes in the US.
The vote on the proposal was scheduled for Wednesday, the 17th, but resistance from the US and its allies led to its postponement until Thursday. Among the countries that defended the US was Brazil, which argued that racism is not unique to just one country.
247 - The government of Jair Bolsonaro defended US President Donald Trump and the police at an extraordinary meeting of the UN Human Rights Council regarding George Floyd, a black man suffocated to death by a white police officer in Minnesota. This information comes from... Jamil Chade on Uol.
African countries proposed that “the UN conclude the meeting with the creation of an international commission of inquiry to investigate the crimes of racism committed in the US and other countries experiencing the same situation. The text was submitted to the United Nations in response to the death of George Floyd,” the columnist said.
The vote was supposed to take place this Wednesday, but resistance from the US and its allies to the proposal led to its postponement until Thursday. Among the countries that defended the US was Brazil, which argued that racism is not unique to just one country.