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title: "UN R/59/199 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "R/59/199: General Assembly recorded vote. Adopted in 2004 — 107 in favour, 33 against, 19 abstaining. The President (spoke in French): Draft resolution XVI is entitled _Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities<d3>. The Third Committee adopted draft resolution XVI without a vote. May I take it that the Assembly wishes to do likewise? Draft resolution XVI was adopted (resolution 59/198). The President (spoke in French): Draft resolution XVII is entitled _Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance<d3>. A separate vote has been requested on operative paragraph 9 of draft…"
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# R/59/199: nan

Voted 2004-12-20 · General Assembly recorded vote

Yes

107

67%

No

33

21%

Abstain

19

12%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The President (spoke in French): Draft resolution XVI is entitled \_Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities\<d3>. The Third Committee adopted draft resolution XVI without a vote. May I take it that the Assembly wishes to do likewise? Draft resolution XVI was adopted (resolution 59/198). The President (spoke in French): Draft resolution XVII is entitled \_Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance\<d3>. A separate vote has been requested on operative paragraph 9 of draft…

### Voted against

Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zimbabwe

### Notable abstentions

Angola, Barbados, Belize, Bhutan, China, Gambia, Grenada, Guyana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mongolia, Nigeria, North Korea, Philippines, Sri Lanka

## Primary sources

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

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