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title: "UN R/72/38 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "R/72/38: Nuclear weapons. Adopted in 2017 — 123 in favour, 38 against, 11 abstaining. The Acting President: Draft resolution X is entitled _Nuclear disarmament<d3>. Separate, recorded votes have been requested on the thirty-second preambular paragraph and operative paragraph 16. I shall first put to the vote the thirty-second preambular paragraph. A"
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# R/72/38: nan

Voted 2017-12-04 · Nuclear weapons

Yes

123

72%

No

38

22%

Abstain

11

6%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The Acting President: Draft resolution X is entitled \_Nuclear disarmament\<d3>. Separate, recorded votes have been requested on the thirty-second preambular paragraph and operative paragraph 16. I shall first put to the vote the thirty-second preambular paragraph. A

### Voted against

Albania, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

### Notable abstentions

Andorra, Armenia, Belarus, India, Japan, Mali, Mauritius, North Korea, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Yugoslavia

## Primary sources

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

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