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A/RES/57/49 GA

Cooperation between the United Nations and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

57
Session
128
Yes
1
No
3
Abstentions
Draft symbol A/57/L.40
Adopted symbol A/RES/57/49
Category POLITICAL AND LEGAL QUESTIONS
Voeten Topics ⓘ
P5 Positions
Russia ✓ United States ✗ United Kingdom ✓ China ✓ France ✓
UN Document A/RES/57/49 ↗

Vote Recorded Vote — A/57/PV.56 Nov. 21, 2002

⚠ 1 surprising vote — country whose ideal point predicts the opposite position.

— Abstain (3)
✗ No (1)
Absent (59)
✓ Yes (128)
Speeches following this vote (17) may include explanations of vote
The President
I shall now call on representatives who wish to speak in explanation of vote after the voting. May I remind delegations that explanations of vote are limited to 10 minutes and should be made by delegations from their seats.
Mr. Bishnoi (India)
First and foremost, my delegation would like to express its satisfactions with the adoption of this resolution, as well as with the adoption of the resolution contained in document A/57/L.38, as orally revised. We would also like to express our deep appreciation for the efforts undertaken by the delegation of Chile and other sponsors. We would like to place on record our recognition of the constr…
Ms. Dixon (New Zealand)
New Zealand was pleased to vote in support of resolution 57/49, on cooperation between the United Nations and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). For many years, we have advocated at the United Nations the importance of a comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty, and we welcomed the adoption of the Treaty in 1996. For New Zealand the establishment …
Mr. Stephens (Australia)
I speak in relation to the resolution on cooperation between the United Nations and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). Australia was pleased to vote for resolution 57/49. However, we were disappointed that it was necessary to bring the resolution to a vote at all. In our view, it should be possible for the General Assembly to adopt this…
The President
We have heard the last speaker in explanation of vote after the voting. I shall now call on those representatives who wish to speak in exercise of the right of reply. In accordance with General Assembly resolution 477 (V), of 1 November 1950, I now call on the Observer for the League of Arab States.
Mr. Mahmassani
I think the representative of Israel has fooled no one today. The killing of Palestinians goes on unabated on a daily basis, and we all watch it on television screens. Israel has been pursuing a scorched-earth policy to annihilate the Palestinian people. In fact, a report recently published by Amnesty International says that “Israeli defence forces committed violations of international law during…
Mr. Abelian (Armenia)
I would like to exercise my right of reply to the statement made earlier this morning by the representative of Azerbaijan. The representative of Azerbaijan, referring in his statement to the issue of Nagorny Karabakh as a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan and employing such language as “aggression of Armenia against Azerbaijan”, is trying to mislead the international community. The Nagorny…
Mr. Shacham (Israel)
I would like to reply to the statement just made in exercise of the right of reply by the observer of the League of Arab States. I will spare the Assembly a rebuttal and a refutation point-by-point of the issues raised by the observer because we will all be missing our Thanksgiving weekend discussing this issue at its proper time on 29 November, not, as we are doing now, during the discussion of…
Mr. Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
I would like to exercise my right of reply in response to the representative of Armenia. I understand the desperate attempts of the Armenian representative to erase the United Nations records on the conflict in and around the Nagorny Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. It is the very definition of “the conflict in and around the Nagorny Karabakh region of the Azerbaijani Republic” that confirms the t…
The President
I call on the observer of the League of Arab States to make a statement in reply.
Mr. Mahmassani
I shall be brief. Of course, the representative of Israel wants to spare us a prolonging of this discussion, simply because he has no argument. So now he reverts to another subject. All right, I shall accept the challenge. The Arab League has always rejected and never condoned the killing of civilians, no matter who they are — Palestinians or Israelis. But I want now to challenge and ask the rep…
The President
May I remind representatives that statements in the exercise of the right of reply are limited to 10 minutes for the first intervention and to five minutes for the second intervention and should be made by delegations from their seats.
Mr. Abelian (Armenia)
I apologize for taking the floor a second time. Nagorny Karabakh’s secession from Azerbaijan was peaceful, legal and just. The present stalemate is the consequence of the war that Azerbaijan initiated in response to the peaceful exercise by the people of Nagorny Karabakh of their right of self-determination. Azerbaijan is trying to reinforce its rule and sovereignty over a people who refuse to …
Mr. Shacham (Israel)
I should like to remind the observer for the League of Arab States and Assembly Members that there is absolutely no moral equivalence between a terrorist who, in a premeditated fashion, straps a bomb onto his body, boards a bus, chooses to position himself among civilian children, women and commuters and detonates his bomb, filled with pieces of shrapnel, in order to cause as much civilian death…
Mr. Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
I shall be very brief. I should like to remind the representative of Armenia about the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s ministerial decision of March 1992 establishing his country and my country as main parties to the conflict. As far as the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities of Nagorny Karabakh are concerned, they have been established as interested parties.
The President
May I take it that it is the wish of the General Assembly to conclude its consideration of sub-items (a) to (c), (e) to (k), (m) and (o) to (s) of agenda item 22? It was so decided.
The President
I should like to inform Members that action on draft resolution A/57/L.23 will be taken at a later date.
Full text of resolution OCR extract — may contain errors
United Nations A/RES/57/49 General Assembly Distr.: General 10 February 2003 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 22 (q) 02 54089 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.40)] 57/49. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty Organization The General Assembly, Taking note of the note by the Secretary-General on cooperation between the United Nations and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty Organization,1 Taking note also of the report of the Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization,2 Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session the sub- item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization”. 56th plenary meeting 21 November 2002 _______________ 1 A/57/255. 2 See A/57/255.
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