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title: "UN R/72/45 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "R/72/45: Nuclear weapons. Adopted in 2017 — 128 in favour, 35 against, 12 abstaining. The Acting President: Draft resolution XVII is entitled _Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas<d3>. A separate, recorded vote has been requested on the sixth preambular paragraph. A"
url: "https://modeldiplomat.com/un-vote/5991"
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# R/72/45: nan

Voted 2017-12-04 · Nuclear weapons

Yes

128

73%

No

35

20%

Abstain

12

7%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The Acting President: Draft resolution XVII is entitled \_Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas\<d3>. A separate, recorded vote has been requested on the sixth preambular paragraph. A

### Voted against

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

### Notable abstentions

Andorra, Armenia, Belarus, Finland, Georgia, Greece, India, Japan, 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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