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title: "UN A/RES/72/251 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "A/RES/72/251: Nuclear weapons. Adopted in 2017 — 114 in favour, 30 against, 14 abstaining. A/72/251 99 - General and complete disarmament. - DISARMAMENT--GENERAL AND COMPLETE"
url: "https://modeldiplomat.com/un-vote/5592"
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UN vote · Session 72

# A/RES/72/251: Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Voted 2017-12-24 · Nuclear weapons

Yes

114

72%

No

30

19%

Abstain

14

9%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

A/72/251 99 - General and complete disarmament. - DISARMAMENT--GENERAL AND COMPLETE

### Voted against

Albania, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

### Notable abstentions

Andorra, Angola, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Japan, North Macedonia, Portugal, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Yugoslavia

## Primary sources

- [UN document A/RES/72/251](https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/72/251)
- [Voeten, UN General Assembly Voting Data (Harvard Dataverse)](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LEJUQZ)

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