32/123 GA
Observance of the thirtieth anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
32
Session
| Draft symbol | VIl |
|---|---|
| Adopted symbol | 32/123 |
| UN Document | 32/123 ↗ |
Vote Consensus — A/32/PV.105
Speeches following this vote (20)
The President
Draft resolution IX is entitled "United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control and its programmes related to economic and social development" I put draft resolution IX to the vote. A recorded vote has been requested.
The President
Draft resolution X is entitled "Intensified and co-ordinated efforts to fight the illicit traffic in and illicit demand for narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances". A recorded vote has been requested.
The President
Draft resolution XI is entitled "Regional Arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights". The Third Committee adopted resolution XI without a vote. May I take it that the General Assembly wishes to do likewise?
The President
Lastly, we come to draft resolution XII, entitled "Missing persons in Cyprus". The Third Committee adopted the draft resolution without a vote. May I take it that the General Assembly wishes to do likewise?
The President
I shall now call on representatives wishing to explain their votes.
70. U TIN LAT (Burma): The delegation of Burma abstained in the vote on draft resolution VIII, entitled "Narcotic drugs: international co-operation in treatment and rehabilitation" contained in the report of the Third Committee [A/32/458] under agenda item 12, "Report of the Economic and Social Council". We did so because the ba…
Mr. Dawadi
My delegation voted in favour of draft resolution VI, entitled "Protection of persons detained or imprisoned as a result of their struggle against apartheid, racism and racial discrimination, colonialism, aggression and foreign occupation and for self-determination, independence as well as social progress for their people".
75. My delegation has always opposed apartheid and all forms of racism o…
Mr. Mezvjnsky
The United States voted against draft resolution VI on the protection of detained or imprisoned persons. In our view the draft resolution has several serious defects and we shall confine our remarks to just a few of them.
77. First, we view the draft resolution as largely a political document. It patronizingly uses the question of political prisoners as a polemical vehicle.
78. Secondly, the dr…
Mr. Merkel
On behalf of the delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany, I should like to thank the delegation of Nigeria for the initiative it took on draft resolution XL To promote and encourage respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, is a task that ranks high among the obligations of the international community. The creation …
Mrs. Nguyen Ngoc Dung
The delegation of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam did not oppose the adoption by the General Assembly of draft resolution XI in doc:Jment A/32/458 Nevertheless we should like to make the following comment. My delegation considers that, since the promotion. of and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the achievement of the full dignity and worth of the human person are the ulti…
Mr. Gass
Although the United Kingdom was able to vote in favour of draft resolution X in document A/32/4s8, the substance of which my delegation considers to be a valuable contribution to efforts to combat drug abuse, the United Kingdom does not interpret operative paragraph 6 of the resolution as prejudicing our non-ratification of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
91. Mc. O'DONOVAN (Irela…
Mr. Abramov
My delegation voted against draft resolution VI for the reasons we set forth in the TrJrd Committee. We reject out of hand the allegations contained in operative paragraph 4 as regards Israel. In contrast to the situation in other countries, including countries which sponsored this draft resolution, where thousands of prisoners are held in prison or in concentration camps because of their opinion…
Mr. Maksimov
The delegation of the Byelorussian SSR expresses its satisfaction at the adoption by the General Assembly of draft resolution VI entitled "Protection of persons detained or imprisoned as a result of their struggle against apartheid, racism and racial discrimination, colonialism, aggression and foreign occupation and for self-determination, independence as well as social progress for their people"…
The President
The Assembly will now consider the report of the Third Committee on agenda item 75, entitled "World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination". The report is contained in document A/32/422.
105. I call on the representative of Israel, who wishes to explain his vote before the vote
Mr. Abramov
My delegation has been and is on record as opposed to any form of racial discrimination Likewise, Israel is in favour of the Decade for Action to Combat..Racism and Racial Discrimination and is for the struggle for the elimination of discrimination that is based on resolution 3057 (XXVIII). My delegation, however, will vote against the draft resolution in paragraph 10 of document A/32/422 because…
The President
The General Assembly will now take a decision on the draft resolution recommended by the Third Committee in paragraph 10 ofits report [A/32/422]. The draft resolution is entitled "World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination" A recorded vote has been requested.
The President
I invite representatives to turn now to the draft decision contained in paragraph 11 of the Third Committee's report [A/32/422J. The Third Committee adopted that recommendation without a vote. May I take it that the General Assembly wishes to do likewise?
The draft decision was adopted (decision 32/433).
The President
I shall now call on those representatives wishing to explain their votes.
Mr. LI Wen-chuan
On agenda item 75, the Chinese delegation voted in favour of the draft resolution contained in document A/32/422. With regard to operative paragraph 5 of that draft resolution, the Chinese delegation wishes to take this opportunity to state again that the invitation of observers to attend the World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination by the Secretary-Gene:cal must be made in str…
Mr. Nothomb
The nine States members of the European Community, on whose behalf I have the honour to speak, voted in favour of the draft resolution on the World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, contained in document A/32/422. The sponsors of that draft, all members of the African group, had at the sixty-second session of the Economic and Social Council shown a great spirit of conciliatio…
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