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title: "UN A/RES/74/59 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "A/RES/74/59: Nuclear weapons. Adopted in 2019 — 138 in favour, 33 against, 15 abstaining. Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons"
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UN vote · Session 74

# A/RES/74/59: Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons

Voted 2019-12-12 · Nuclear weapons

Yes

138

74%

No

33

18%

Abstain

15

8%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons

### Voted against

Albania, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

### Notable abstentions

Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, Finland, Georgia, Iceland, India, Japan, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), North Korea, Ukraine, Yugoslavia

## Primary sources

- [UN document A/RES/74/59](https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/74/59)
- [Voeten, UN General Assembly Voting Data (Harvard Dataverse)](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LEJUQZ)

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