In a new display of President Javier Milei’s alignment with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, Argentina joined the United States and Israel as the only three countries to vote  against a United Nations resolution to create an International Day of Peaceful Coexistence.

The move comes days after Milei’s trip to the U.S., where he had a formal meeting with Trump for the first time, and ahead of a new visit to Israel scheduled for late March.

On Tuesday, the UN proclaimed January 28 as the annual International Day of Peaceful Coexistence. The resolution, which was proposed by Bahrain, garnered 162 votes in favor, three against, and two abstentions (Paraguay and Peru).

According to a UN press release, Bahrain’s Minister for Transportation and Telecommunications Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said that the resolution “reaffirms the role of Member States and other stakeholders in promoting tolerance, respect for religious and cultural diversity and human rights.”

The vote is evidence of the stark turn Argentina has taken from its historical position of supporting peace and maintaining neutrality on international conflicts. In September, Argentina was one of 14 countries that voted against a UN resolution demanding Israel to end its “unlawful presence” in occupied territory in Palestine.

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Edward Heartney, representative of the United States before the UN, said his delegation would vote against Bahrain’sresolution because it “advances a programme of soft global governance that is inconsistent with US sovereignty.”

“Simply put, globalist endeavours like Agenda 2030 and the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) lost at the ballot box; therefore, the US rejects and denounces the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and the SDGs,” Heartney said.

During Tuesday’s UN session, Argentina also abstained from voting on a resolution called “Education for Democracy,” which calls for investments in quality education and lifelong learning to promote inclusive education and strengthen democracy.

Argentina’s representative, Francisco Tropepi, cited similar reasons to Washington in order to explain  the country’s disagreement with several paragraphs of the Education for Democracy resolution. 

“Every State, within its own sovereignty, has the right to participate [in the 2030 Agenda] — or not,” he said.