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title: "UN R/71/69 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "R/71/69: Disarmament. Adopted in 2016 — 147 in favour, 8 against, 17 abstaining. The Acting President: Draft resolution XXXVIII is entitled _Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction<d3>. Separate, recorded votes have been requested on the third and fourth preambular paragraphs and on operative paragraphs 2 and 13. I shall first put to the vote the third preambularparagraph. A"
url: "https://modeldiplomat.com/un-vote/5960"
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# R/71/69: nan

Voted 2016-12-05 · Disarmament

Yes

147

85%

No

8

5%

Abstain

17

10%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The Acting President: Draft resolution XXXVIII is entitled \_Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction\<d3>. Separate, recorded votes have been requested on the third and fourth preambular paragraphs and on operative paragraphs 2 and 13. I shall first put to the vote the third preambularparagraph. A

### Voted against

Belarus, Burundi, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

### Notable abstentions

Algeria, Armenia, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Fiji, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Nicaragua, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan

## Primary sources

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

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