{"id":186960,"date":"2008-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=186960"},"modified":"2021-10-20T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T21:06:06","slug":"auto-insert-186960","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-186960\/","title":{"rendered":"Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination – GA vote – Verbatim record (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Official Records<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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General Assembly<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span>Sixty-third session<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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70<\/strong><\/span>th plenary meeting
\nThursday, 18 December 2008, 10 a.m.<\/span> <\/span>
\nNew York<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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

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Mr. D’Escoto Brockmann  ……………………………………………………<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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

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  In the absence of the President, Mr. Tanin (Afghanistan), Vice-President, took the Chair. <\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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The meeting was called to order at 10.30 a.m.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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 Agenda item 63<\/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\/63\/429)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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 The Acting President<\/strong> : The Assembly has before it three draft resolutions recommended by the Third Committee in paragraph 19 of its report. We will now take a decision on draft resolutions I, II and III. <\/p><\/div>\n

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  The Acting President<\/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, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada,   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, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, 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, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, 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, Cameroon, Canada, Fiji, Nauru, Tonga, Vanuatu<\/p><\/div>\n

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  Draft resolution III was adopted by 173 votes to 5, with 7 abstentions <\/i>(resolution 63\/165).<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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

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The meeting rose at 1.15 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":"

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