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title: "UN R/57/156 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "R/57/156: General Assembly recorded vote. Adopted in 2002 — 109 in favour, 0 against, 37 abstaining. The Acting President (spoke in Spanish): We have heard the last speaker in explanation of vote before the voting. The Assembly will now take a decision on draft resolutions A/57/L.23/Rev.1 and A/57/L.55/Rev.1. We turn first to draft resolution A/57/L.23/Rev.1,entitled _Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe<d3>. I should like to inform the Assembly that Canada and Suriname have also become sponsors of the draft resolution. Separate votes have been requested on operative paragraph 4, operative paragraph 6 and operative paragraph 12 of draft resolution A/57/L.23/Rev.1.…"
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# R/57/156: nan

Voted 2002-12-16 · General Assembly recorded vote

Yes

109

75%

No

0

0%

Abstain

37

25%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The Acting President (spoke in Spanish): We have heard the last speaker in explanation of vote before the voting. The Assembly will now take a decision on draft resolutions A/57/L.23/Rev.1 and A/57/L.55/Rev.1. We turn first to draft resolution A/57/L.23/Rev.1,entitled \_Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe\<d3>. I should like to inform the Assembly that Canada and Suriname have also become sponsors of the draft resolution. Separate votes have been requested on operative paragraph 4, operative paragraph 6 and operative paragraph 12 of draft resolution A/57/L.23/Rev.1.…

### Notable abstentions

Bangladesh, Belize, Burundi, Cameroon, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras

## Primary sources

- [Voeten, UN General Assembly Voting Data (Harvard Dataverse)](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LEJUQZ)

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