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Official Records<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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General Assembly<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span>Sixty-first session
\n<\/span>81<\/strong><\/span>st plenary meeting
\nTuesday, 19 December 2006, 3.15 p.m.<\/span> <\/span>
\nNew York<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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President:<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ms. Al-Khalifa  ………………………………………………………………………<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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(Bahrain)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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    The meeting was called to order at 3.30 p.m.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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Agenda item 66 <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Right of peoples to self-determination<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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    Report of the Third Committee (A\/61\/442)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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 The President<\/strong> : The Assembly has before it three draft resolutions recommended by the Third Committee in paragraph 21 of its report and a draft decision recommended by the Committee in paragraph 22 of the same report. We will now take a decision on draft resolutions I, II and III, and on the draft decision. <\/p><\/div>\n

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 The President<\/strong>: <\/strong>Draft resolution III is entitled “The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination”. A recorded vote has been requested. <\/p><\/div>\n

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  A recorded vote was taken.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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In favour<\/i>:<\/p><\/div>\n

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  Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe <\/p><\/div>\n

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Against<\/i><\/span>:<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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  Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Palau, United States of America <\/p><\/div>\n

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Abstaining<\/i>: <\/p><\/div>\n

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  Australia, Canada, Central African Republic, Nauru, Vanuatu<\/p><\/div>\n

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  Draft resolution III was adopted by 176 votes to 5, with 5 abstentions<\/i> (resolution 61\/152).<\/p><\/div>\n

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  [Subsequently the delegation of the Central African Republic advised the Secretariat that it had intended to vote in favour.] <\/p><\/div>\n

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  The meeting rose at 6.30 p.m.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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This record contains the text of speeches delivered in English and of the interpretation of speeches delivered in the other languages. Corrections should be submitted to the original languages only. They should be incorporated in a copy of the record and sent under the signature of a member of the delegation concerned to the Chief of the Verbatim Reporting Service, room C-154A. Corrections will be issued after the end of the session in a consolidated corrigendum. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Official Records   General Assembly Sixty-first session 81st plenary meeting Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 3.15 p.m.  New York President: Ms. Al-Khalifa  ……………………………………………………………………… (Bahrain)         The meeting was called to order at 3.30 p.m.     Agenda item 66   Right of peoples to self-determination       Report of the Third Committee (A\/61\/442)    The President : The […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2625,3885,1623,3745],"document-source":[1365],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[6156,1741,1821],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-179472","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-meeting-record","document-category-provisional-verbatim-record","document-category-verbatim-record","document-category-voting-record","document-source-general-assembly","document-subject-agenda-item","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-self-determination","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/179472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/179472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=179472"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=179472"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=179472"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=179472"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=179472"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=179472"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=179472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}