Below is a comprehensive summary and analysis of the 49
resolutions and 3 decisions adopted by the 62nd First Committee and
General Assembly. Voting is given as: for-against-abstention. The
votes in the First Committee took place between October 30 and
November 2, 2007. The General Assembly adopted all the resolutions
and draft decisions featured here on December 5, 2007.
The First Committee votes are shown first, followed by voting
figures from the UN General Assembly. GA numbers are given for all
resolutions and decisions. "Rev" denotes a revised version of the
resolution was circulated subsequent to its introduction as an
official UN draft resolution. We identify the state that introduced
each resolution-normally this state would have also taken the lead
in drafting and negotiating with others on the text. For lists of
all co-sponsors, check the UN documents.
Vote tallies given here are from the official records. "Without
a vote" denotes that a resolution was adopted by consensus without
a recorded vote taken. Some countries state that they have not
participated in the consensus, while others prefer not to vote at
all and be counted absent. With regard to General Assembly votes,
states that are in serious arrears with their payments to the UN
are recorded as absent, whether or not they voted, which explains
why even the co-sponsors of some resolutions are not recorded in
the votes. There may also be discrepancies in voting figures due to
requests by delegations for their votes to be recorded after
missing or making mistakes during the electronic voting
procedure.
In some resolutions, separate votes were requested on specific
paragraphs or parts of paragraphs. In these cases, PP refers to
preambular paragraph and OP refers to operative paragraph. The
preambular paragraphs generally provide background and context on
the subject of a resolution, identify and apply general principles
of international law, and can broadly indicate the object and
purpose of a resolution. Operative paragraphs contain decisions and
requests, identifying action to be taken. However, General Assembly
resolutions are non-binding on UN member states.
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| Title |
FC Votes |
GA Votes |
|
UNGA draft decision I (L.6) United
Nations conference to identify appropriate ways of eliminating
nuclear dangers in the context of nuclear disarmament
[Mexico]
|
123-3-44 |
133-3-43 |
|
UNGA 62/24 (L.8) Follow-up to nuclear
disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995 and 2000 Review
Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons [Iran]
|
Whole: 103-53-15
PP6: 102-48-11 |
Whole: 109-55-15
PP6: 114-50-10 |
|
UNGA 62/25 (L.9) Towards a
nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of
nuclear disarmament commitments [Mexico]
|
Whole: 151-5-13
P6: 155-4-2 |
Whole: 156-5-14
P6: 165-4-2
|
|
UNGA draft decision II (L.20) Missiles
[Iran]
|
117-6-51 |
123-7-51 |
|
UNGA 62/32 (L.21) Reducing nuclear
danger [India]
|
113-50-13 |
117-52-12 |
|
UNGA 62/51 (L.23) Convention on the
prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons [India]
|
115-50-11 |
120-52-10 |
|
UNGA 62/34 (L.25) Prohibition of the
dumping of radioactive wastes [Nigeria]
|
without a vote |
without a vote |
|
UNGA 62/59 (L.28*) Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty (CTBT) [New Zealand]
|
166-1-4 |
176-1-4 |
|
UNGA 62/36 (L.29) Decreasing the
operational readiness of nuclear weapons systems [New
Zealand]
|
124-3-34 |
139-3-36 |
|
UNGA 62/37 (L.30) Renewed
determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons
[Japan]
|
165-3-10 |
170-3-9 |
|
UNGA 62/39 (L.36) Follow-up to the
advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons [Malaysia]
|
121-25-29 |
127-27-27 |
|
UNGA 62/42 (L.40) Nuclear Disarmament
[Myanmar/Burma]
|
113-45-17 |
117-47-17 |
| UNGA 62/19 (L.44)
Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure
non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of
nuclear weapons [Pakistan] |
120-1-54 |
121-1-56 |
| UNGA 62/45 (L.46/Rev.1)
Preventing the acquisition by terrorists of radioactive materials
and sources [France] |
without a vote |
without a vote |
| Title |
FC Votes |
GA Votes |
| UNGA 62/18 (L.1)
Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the
Middle East [Egypt] |
without vote |
without vote |
| UNGA 62/56 (L.2) The risk
of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East [Egypt on behalf of the
League of Arab States] |
Whole: 164-3-6
PP6: 161-3-6 |
Whole: 170-5-7
PP6: 166-3-6 |
| UNGA 62/16 (L.10)
Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Treaty of Tlatelolco) [Mexico] |
without a vote |
without a vote |
| UNGA 62/31 (L.19/Rev.1)
Treaty on Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty)
[Indonesia] |
161-1-4 |
174-1-5 |
| UNGA 62/15 (L.26)
African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty [Nigeria] |
without a vote |
without a vote |
| UNGA 62/35 (L.27)
Nuclear weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas [New
Zealand] |
Whole: 162-3-7
OP6: 156-1-8
Last three words OP6: 154-2-9 |
Whole: 169-3-8
OP6: 163-1-8
Last three words OP6: 163-1-9 |
| Title |
FC Votes |
GA Votes |
| UNGA 62/23 (L.7*)
Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons
and on Their Destruction [Poland] |
without a vote |
without a vote |
| UNGA 62/33 (L.22)
Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass
destruction [India] |
without vote |
without vote |
| UNGA 62/60 (L.37)
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and
Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and
on Their Destruction [Hungary] |
without vote |
without vote |
| Title |
FC Votes |
GA Votes |
| UNGA 62/20 (L.34)
Prevention of an arms race in outer space [Sri Lanka] |
170-1-1 |
178-1-1 |
| UNGA 62/43 (L.41)
Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space
activities [Russia] |
168-1-1 |
179-1-1 |
| Title |
FC Votes |
GA Votes |
|
UNGA 62/22 (L.5) Assistance to States
for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and
collecting them [Mali]
|
without a vote |
without a vote |
|
UNGA 62/57 (L.32) Convention on
Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional
Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have
Indiscriminate Effects [Sweden]
|
without a vote |
without a vote |
|
UNGA 62/40 (L.38/Rev.1) Prevention of
the illicit transfer and unauthorized access to and use of
man-portable air defence systems [Australia]
|
without vote |
without vote |
|
UNGA 62/41 (L.39) Implementation of the
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production
and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
[Australia]
|
154-0-18 |
164-0-18 |
|
UNGA 62/47 (L.49/Rev.1) The illicit
trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects
[Colombia]
|
165-1-0 |
179-1-0 |
| Title |
FC Votes |
GA Votes |
| UNGA 62/38 (L.31)
Regional Disarmament [Pakistan] |
without vote |
without vote |
| UNGA 62/44 (L.42)
Conventional arms control at the regional and sub-regional levels
[Pakistan] |
167-1-1 |
177-1-1 |
| UNGA 62/58 (L.48)
Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean
region [Algeria] |
without vote |
without vote |
| UNGA 62/52 (L.52/Rev.1)
Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United
Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in
Central Africa [Cameroon] |
without vote |
without vote |
| Title |
FC Votes |
GA Votes |
| UNGA 62/26 (L.12)
National legislation on transfer of arms, military equipment and
dual-use goods and technology [Netherlands] |
without a vote |
without a vote |
| UNGA 62/27 (L.13)
Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and
non-proliferation [Indonesia] |
112-4-51 |
123-6-51 |
| UNGA 62/28 (L.14)
Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and
implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control
[Indonesia] |
162-1-3 |
175-1-3 |
| UNGA 62/14 (L.16)
Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of
Peace [Indonesia] |
120-3-45 |
130-3-47 |
| UNGA 62/30 (L.18/Rev.1)
Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted
uranium [Indonesia] |
122-6-35 |
136-5-36 |
| UNGA 62/13 (L.33)
Objective information on military matters, including transparency
of military expenditures [Germany] |
without a vote |
without a vote |
| UNGA 62/45 (L.43)
Confidence-building measures in the regional and sub-regional
context [Pakistan] |
without a vote |
without a vote |
| UNGA 62/17 (L.45)
Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in
the context of international security [Indonesia] |
168-1-0 |
179-1-0 |
| UNGA 62/21 (L.47)
Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United
Nations in the field of verification [Canada] |
without vote |
without vote |
|
UNGA 62/48 (L.50) Relationship between
disarmament and development [Indonesia]
|
166-1-2 |
179-1-2 |
| UNGA draft decision III
(L.51) Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the
Strengthening of International Security [Indonesia] |
without vote |
without vote |
| Title |
FC Votes |
GA Votes |
| UNGA 62/54 (L.3) Report of
the Disarmament Commission [Uruguay] |
without a vote |
without a vote |
| UNGA 62/49 (L.4) United
Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in
Latin America and the Caribbean [Peru] |
without vote |
without vote |
| UNGA 62/55 (L.11) Report
of the Conference on Disarmament [Syria] |
without vote |
without vote |
| UNGA 62/50 (L.15) United
Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament
[Indonesia] |
without vote |
without vote |
| UNGA 62/29 (L.17/Rev.1)
Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly
devoted to disarmament [Indonesia] |
166-1-0 |
178-1-1 |
| UNGA 62/ (L.24/Rev.1)
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa
[Nigeria] |
164-1-5 |
150-0-5 (postponed to Dec 22) |
| UNGA 62/216 (L.24/Rev.1)
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa
[Nigeria] |
without vote |
without vote |
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Mongolia's International Security and
Nuclear-Weapon-Free Status. |
2006 (UNGA 61/87) |
2008 |
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva
Protocol. |
2006 (UNGA 61/61) |
2008 |
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Information on confidence-building measures in the
field of conventional arms |
2006 (UNGA 61/79) |
2008 |
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Maintenance of international security-good
neighbourliness, stability and development in South-Eastern
Europe. |
2006 (UNGA 61/53) |
2008 |
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| United Nations Disarmament Information
Programme. |
2006 (UNGA 61/95) |
2008 |
| United Nations study on disarmament and
non-proliferation education. |
2006 (UNGA 61/73) |
2008 |
| Transparency in armaments. |
2006 (UNGA 61/77) |
2008 |
| Question of Antarctica. |
2005 (UNGA 60/47) |
2008 |
| Compliance with non-proliferation, arms limitation
and disarmament agreements. |
2005 (UNGA 60/55) |
2008 (tentative) |
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Prohibition of the development and manufacture of
new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such
weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament. |
2005 (UNGA 60/46) |
2008 |
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Prohibition of the production of fissile material
for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. |
2006 (withdrawn) |
2008 (tentative) |
| Problems arising from the accumulation of
conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus. |
2006 (UNGA 61/72) |
2008 |
| Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common
international standards for the import, export and transfer of
conventional arms. |
2006 (UNGA 61/89) |
2008 |
| Consolidation of peace through practical
disarmament measures. |
2006 (UNGA 61/76) |
2008 |