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description: "R/53/77Y: Nuclear weapons. Adopted in 1998 — 160 in favour, 3 against, 2 abstaining. The President (interpretation from Spanish): Draftresolution Y is entitled _Towards a nuclear-weapon-freeworld: the need for a new agenda<d3>. 26 79th plenary meeting 4 December 1998 Separate votes have been requested on operative paragraph 8 and operative paragraph 17 of draft resolution Y. Are there any objections to those requests? I see none. I shall first put to the vote operative paragraph 8. A recorded vote has been requested. A"
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# R/53/77Y: nan

Voted 1998-12-04 · Nuclear weapons

Yes

160

97%

No

3

2%

Abstain

2

1%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The President (interpretation from Spanish): Draftresolution Y is entitled \_Towards a nuclear-weapon-freeworld: the need for a new agenda\<d3>. 26 79th plenary meeting 4 December 1998 Separate votes have been requested on operative paragraph 8 and operative paragraph 17 of draft resolution Y. Are there any objections to those requests? I see none. I shall first put to the vote operative paragraph 8. A recorded vote has been requested. A

### Voted against

India, Israel, Pakistan

### Notable abstentions

Bhutan, Cuba

## Primary sources

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

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