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A remaining 18 member states were not included in that result. “So here’s the real headline … A majority of the members of the United Nations, did not vote to expel Russia,” he told Borger.

Vanuatu is also among a group of vulnerable island nations pressing for a global fossil fuels nonproliferation treaty. Like many other low-lying islands, it is on the front line of climate hazards.