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title: "UN R/61/89 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "R/61/89: Disarmament. Adopted in 2006 — 148 in favour, 1 against, 22 abstaining. The Acting President: Draft resolution XXXI is entitled _Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms<d3>. Separate votes have been requested on operative paragraph 2 and operative paragraph 3 of draft resolution XXXI. As there are no objections to those requests, I shall first put to the vote operative 29A/61/PV.67 paragraph 2 of draft resolution XXXI, on which a separate, recorded vote has been requested. A"
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# R/61/89: nan

Voted 2006-12-06 · Disarmament

Yes

148

87%

No

1

1%

Abstain

22

13%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The Acting President: Draft resolution XXXI is entitled \_Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms\<d3>. Separate votes have been requested on operative paragraph 2 and operative paragraph 3 of draft resolution XXXI. As there are no objections to those requests, I shall first put to the vote operative 29A/61/PV.67 paragraph 2 of draft resolution XXXI, on which a separate, recorded vote has been requested. A

### Voted against

United States

### Notable abstentions

Bahrain, Belarus, China, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Libya, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia

## Primary sources

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

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