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title: "UN R/58/51 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "R/58/51: Nuclear weapons. Adopted in 2003 — 128 in favour, 6 against, 41 abstaining. The Acting President: Draft resolution XVI is entitled _Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: a new agenda<d3>. A separate vote has been requested on the twentieth preambular paragraph of draft resolution XVI. Is there any objection to that request? There is none. I shall therefore put to the vote the twentieth preambular paragraph of draft resolution XVI, on which a separate vote has been requested. A recorded vote has been requested. A"
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# R/58/51: nan

Voted 2003-12-08 · Nuclear weapons

Yes

128

73%

No

6

3%

Abstain

41

23%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The Acting President: Draft resolution XVI is entitled \_Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: a new agenda\<d3>. A separate vote has been requested on the twentieth preambular paragraph of draft resolution XVI. Is there any objection to that request? There is none. I shall therefore put to the vote the twentieth preambular paragraph of draft resolution XVI, on which a separate vote has been requested. A recorded vote has been requested. A

### Voted against

Australia, Israel, Japan, Micronesia (Federated States of), United Kingdom, United States

### Notable abstentions

Albania, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany

## Primary sources

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

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