The United States delegation would like to take this opportunity to explain its abstention in the voting on the draft resolution on this item.
Substantial changes have been offered in this resolution to a provision which constituted one of our principal concerns with resolutions on this subject in …
The United States would like to take this opportunity to explain why we had no alternative to voting once again against the draft resolution on this item. No change has been made to the provisions which we said last year insufficiently addressed one of our major concerns - that of freedom of navigat…