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title: "UN A/RES/74/47 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "A/RES/74/47: Nuclear weapons. Adopted in 2019 — 135 in favour, 37 against, 13 abstaining. Ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world"
url: "https://modeldiplomat.com/un-vote/9129"
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UN vote · Session 74

# A/RES/74/47: Ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world

Voted 2019-12-12 · Nuclear weapons

Yes

135

73%

No

37

20%

Abstain

13

7%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

Ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world

### Voted against

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

### Notable abstentions

Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cameroon, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Japan, North Korea, Pakistan, Sweden, Switzerland, Yugoslavia

## Primary sources

- [UN document A/RES/74/47](https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/74/47)
- [Voeten, UN General Assembly Voting Data (Harvard Dataverse)](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LEJUQZ)

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