§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the occasions on which all members of the European Economic Community did not vote together at the United Nations General Assembly, since January 1985.
§ Mr. EggarThe Twelve members of the Community were divided on 114 of the resolutions, amendments and paragraphs put to the vote in the United Nations General Assembly in 1985. This compares with 278 occasions on which the Twelve joined consensus or voted together. A list will be placed in the Library of the House of Commons as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those occasions at the United Nations General Assembly during the past year in which the United Kingdom and the United States of America voted together in a way different from the rest of the European Economic Community countries.
§ Mr. EggarThe United. Kingdom voted in the same way as the United States of America and in a different way from other members of the Community on the following six resolutions during the 40th Session of the United Nations General Assembly:
On each of these resolutions the vote of Community countries was split between voting for, voting against and abstaining.
- 40/53 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.
- 40/57 Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence of Colonial Countries and Peoples.
- 40/58 Dissemination of information on decolonisation.
- 40/64F Programme of work of the Special Committee Against Apartheid.
- 40/64I Concerted international action for the elimination of apartheid.
- 40/94G General and complete disarmament: Prohibition of the production of fissionable material for weapon purposes.