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title: "UN R/58/196 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "R/58/196: Human rights. Adopted in 2003 — 89 in favour, 3 against, 75 abstaining. The President: Draft resolution IV is entitled _Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo<d3>. A separate vote has been requested on the fourth preambular paragraph of draft resolution IV, as well asa single separate vote on operative paragraphs 3 (b) and 6 (e). Are there any objections to those requests? There are none. I shall now put to the vote the fourth preambular paragraph of draft resolution IV, on which a separate vote has been requested. A recorded vote has been requested. A"
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# R/58/196: nan

Voted 2003-12-22 · Human rights

Yes

89

53%

No

3

2%

Abstain

75

45%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The President: Draft resolution IV is entitled \_Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\<d3>. A separate vote has been requested on the fourth preambular paragraph of draft resolution IV, as well asa single separate vote on operative paragraphs 3 (b) and 6 (e). Are there any objections to those requests? There are none. I shall now put to the vote the fourth preambular paragraph of draft resolution IV, on which a separate vote has been requested. A recorded vote has been requested. A

### Voted against

Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda

### Notable abstentions

Algeria, Antigua & Barbuda, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic

## Primary sources

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

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