§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list Her Majesty's Government voting record for each measure, and amendments thereto, on the agenda of the plentary session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1993.
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§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe 48th plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly met from 21 September to 23 December 1993. It adopted 232 resolutions and 37 decisions during that time. One hundred and sixty-eight resolutions and 35 decisions were adopted without a vote.
The 48th session voted on 64 resolutions and two decisions during its plenary meetings. The United Kingdom's voting record for these measures was as follows:
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Voting Resolutions adopted without reference to a main committee RES/14 Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency For RES/15 Return or restitution of cultural property to countries or origin Abstain RES/16 Ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba Abstain RES/23 Zone of peace and co-operation in the South Atlantic For RES/28 Law of the Sea Abstain RES/52 Implementation of the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples Against RES/53 Dissemination of information on decolonisation Against RES/56 Question of Island of Mayotte Abstain RES/58 Middle East Peace Process For RES/59A Situation in the Middle East For RES/59B Syrian Golan Abstain RES/88 Situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina Abstain RES/158A Committee on the exercise of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian People Abstain RES/158B Division for Palestinian rights of the Secretariat Abstain RES/158C Department of Public Information of the Secretariat For RES/158D Peaceful settlement on the question of Palestine Abstain Resolutions adopted on reports of the first committee RES/66 Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security Against RES/67 The role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields Abstain RES/68 Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the UN in the field of verification Abstain Separate vote on Operative paragraph 2 of RES/68 Against RES/69 Amendment of the Treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, outer space and under water Against RES/72 Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia For RES/73 Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon states against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons Abstain RES/74A Prevention of an arms race in outer space For Separate vote on preambular paragraph 2 of RES/74A Abstain Separate vote on operative paragraph 8 of RES/74A Abstain Separate vote on operative paragraph 10 of RES/74A Abstain RES/75C General and complete disarmament Abstain RES/75H Conventional arms control at regional and sub-regional levels For RES/751 Regional disarmament For RES/75J Conventional arms control at regional and sub-regional levels For RES/76A Review and implementation of the concluding document of the 12th special session of General Assembly: confidence-building measures Abstain RES/76B Convention on the prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons Against RES/78 Israeli nuclear armament Against 140W
Voting RES/79 Convention on the prohibitions or restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects Abstain Separate vote on preambular paragraph 5 of RES/79 Abstain RES/80 Question of Antarctica 1— RES/82 Implementation of the declaration of the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace Abstain RES/83 Review of the implementation of the declaration on the strengthening of international security Abstain RES/84A Maintenance of international security For Resolutions adopted on reports of the second committee RES/182 Enhanced technical co-operation towards a durable solution to the external debt problems of all developing countries For RES/212 Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli settlements on the Palestinian people in the Palestinian territory, including, Jerusalem, occupied since 1967, and on the Arab population of the Syrian Golan For RES/168 Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries Against Resolutions adopted on reports of the third committee RES/89 Status of the International Convention on the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid Abstain RES/92 Use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the rights of peoples to self-determination Against RES/94 Universal realisation of the rights of peoples to self-determination Against RES/101 UN African Institute for the prevention of crime and treatment of offenders Abstain RES/123 Alternative approaches and ways and means within the UN system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms Against RES/124 Respect for the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of states and their electoral processes Against RES/131 Enhancing the effectiveness of the principle of periodic and genuine elections For RES/142 Situation of human rights in Cuba For RES/144 Situation of human rights in Iraq For RES/145 Situation of human rights in Iran For Res/147 Situation of human rights in Sudan For Resolutions adopted on reports of the forth committee RES/40A Assistance to Palestinian refugees For RES/40D Offers by member states of grants and scholarships for higher education, including vocational training, for Palestinian refugees For RES/40E Palestinian refugees in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 For RES/40F Return of population and refugees displaced since 1967 For RES/40G Revenues derived from Palestinian refugees' properties Abstain RES/40H Protection of Palestinian refugees For RES/401 University of Jerusalem "Al-Quds" for Palestinian refugees For RES/40J Protection of Palestinian students and educational institutions and safeguarding of the security of the facilities of UNWRA in the Near East and occupied territories For RES/41A Report of the Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories Abstain RES/41B ditto For RES/41C ditto Abstain RES/41D ditto Abstain
Voting RES/45 Information from non-self-governing territories transmitted under article 73e of the Charter of the United Nations Abstain RES/46 Activities of those foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the declaration on the granting of indpendence to colonial countries and peoples in territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in Southern Africa Against Decision ditto Against RES/47 Implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples by the specialised agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations Against Decision Implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples Against 1 Did not take part in the vote. A copy of the United Nations information record of the resolutions and decisions of the 48th session of the General Assembly showing the texts and voting records will be placed in the Library of the House as soon as it is available.