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title: "UN R/72/163 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "R/72/163: General Assembly recorded vote. Adopted in 2017 — 108 in favour, 18 against, 32 abstaining. The President: Let us first clarify the procedural proposal presented by the delegation of the Sudan. I would like to ask the representative of the Sudan to explain once again procedurally whether he is proposing to replace the original texts of the seventh preambular paragraph and operative paragraph 4 with his proposals, or if he is requesting a separate vote on the texts, as contained in draft resolution II. Mr. Mohamed (Sudan): We do not want to go through the same process that we went through in the Third Committee, where, during the informal ICC consultations, we proposed language that…"
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# R/72/163: nan

Voted 2017-12-19 · General Assembly recorded vote

Yes

108

68%

No

18

11%

Abstain

32

20%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The President: Let us first clarify the procedural proposal presented by the delegation of the Sudan. I would like to ask the representative of the Sudan to explain once again procedurally whether he is proposing to replace the original texts of the seventh preambular paragraph and operative paragraph 4 with his proposals, or if he is requesting a separate vote on the texts, as contained in draft resolution II. Mr. Mohamed (Sudan): We do not want to go through the same process that we went through in the Third Committee, where, during the informal ICC consultations, we proposed language that…

### Voted against

Bahrain, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Kenya, Mauritania, North Korea, Oman, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Zimbabwe

### Notable abstentions

Algeria, Angola, Bolivia, Brunei, Eswatini, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius

## Primary sources

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

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