SOUTH ASIA NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE ZONE ENCOURAGED BY DRAFT TEXT APPROVED IN FIRST COMMITTEE

13 November 1995

Press Release
GA/DIS/3037/

SOUTH ASIA NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE ZONE ENCOURAGED BY DRAFT TEXT APPROVED IN FIRST COMMITTEE

19951113 ADDENDUM

Following is Annex IV of Press Release GA/DIS/3037 issued on 10 November 1995:

Vote on Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

The draft decision on including an item on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Agenda of the fifty-first General Assembly Session (Document A/C.1/50/L.2) was approved by a recorded vote of 102 in favour to 1 against with 45 abstentions, as follows:

In favour: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Against: United States.

Abstaining: Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark,

First Committee - 2 - Press Release GA/DIS/3037/Add.1 18th Meeting (PM) 13 November 1995

Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

Absent: Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Burundi, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Palau, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Zaire.

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