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title: "UN R/72/50 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "R/72/50: Nuclear weapons. Adopted in 2017 — 164 in favour, 2 against, 2 abstaining. The Acting President: Draft resolution XXII is entitled \"United action with renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons\". Separate, recorded votes have been requested on the nineteenth and twentieth preambular paragraphs and operative paragraphs 2, 5, 8, 20, 21 and 28. I shall first put to the vote the nineteenth preambular paragraph."
url: "https://modeldiplomat.com/un-vote/6056"
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# R/72/50: nan

Voted 2017-12-04 · Nuclear weapons

Yes

164

98%

No

2

1%

Abstain

2

1%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

The Acting President: Draft resolution XXII is entitled "United action with renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons". Separate, recorded votes have been requested on the nineteenth and twentieth preambular paragraphs and operative paragraphs 2, 5, 8, 20, 21 and 28. I shall first put to the vote the nineteenth preambular paragraph.

### Voted against

Russia, South Africa

### Notable abstentions

France, Israel

## Primary sources

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

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