We therefore abstained in the voting.

If it had been put to the vote separately, we would have abstained on this paragraph.

To that end, we abstained in the voting on the Declaration.

We abstained because we believe that the Convention contains significant imbalances an issue that we have raised repeatedly in the Assembly over the years.

We have therefore voted against operative paragraph 5 and abstained in the voting on the draft resolution as a whole.

For the reasons I have outlined, my delegation abstained in the voting.

We abstained in the voting on the draft resolution because we support general and complete disarmament.

With that understanding in mind, we joined in the consensus. Had paragraph 6 been put to a separate vote, we would have abstained in that vote.

Had the draft resolution been put to the vote my delegation would have abstained.

It is against this backdrop that we abstained in the voting on this draft resolution.

My delegation abstained on that draft resolution.

With this conviction, had paragraph 22 been put to a separate vote my delegation would have abstained.

His delegation had therefore abstained in the vote.

His delegation had therefore abstained in the vote.

In the final vote, many Member States abstained.

Ireland abstained in the vote on the resolution.

Although we abstained on this Security Council referral to the ICC, we have not dropped, and indeed continue to maintain, our long standing and firm objections and concerns regarding the ICC.

The two delegations had therefore abstained in the vote.

Given these considerations, Canada abstained on the draft resolution.

On reform of the Security Council, we have noted that the Secretary General has wisely abstained from directly advocating any models for increasing the membership of the Council.

Regarding the first, in document A C.1 60 L.36, entitled Nuclear disarmament , we abstained in the vote.

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We also abstained on the draft resolution as a whole, for the reasons that I have just explained and because the sponsors have attempted to compile non consensus elements of a Disarmament Commission document.

For that reason, the United States abstained in the vote.

That was why his delegation had abstained in the vote.

India abstained on resolution 47 1 of 22 September 1992.

It was for that reason that in the Board we abstained on those resolutions that we felt were not contributing to a positive result.

Mr. Maqungo (South Africa) We abstained in the voting on the Declaration and take this opportunity to explain our vote.

Hence, my delegation abstained in the voting on this draft resolution.

In previous years Jamaica abstained on resolutions under this agenda item.

This explains our vote on operative paragraphs 4 (b) and 6, and why we abstained on the text as a whole.

The decisive moment came when the army abstained from suppressing the protests.

Twenty three political parties contested the elections and four abstained (see appendix).

It is for this reason that in the Board we abstained in the voting on those resolutions, which we felt did not contribute to a positive result.

We abstained in the voting on the resolution because, in our view, there are some elements that will not facilitate a negotiated settlement.

Mr. Baruni (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (interpretation from Arabic) We abstained on draft resolution A C.1 49 L.21 because we had reservations about certain parts of it.

For this reason, New Zealand abstained in the vote on the draft resolution.

For that reason, my delegation abstained in the voting on the draft resolution.

For these reasons, my delegation abstained in the vote on this draft resolution.

Although we abstained in the vote on the fourth preambular paragraph, that should not in any way suggest that we have shifted our position on the two State policy for an independent Israel coexisting with an independent State of Palestine.

We had similar reservations concerning the ninth preambular paragraph and operative paragraph 6 of draft resolution A 49 L.2 Rev.2, and therefore we abstained on those paragraphs.

For those reasons, Brazil abstained in the voting on the resolution on the referral.

Because of these reservations, the French delegation abstained in the voting on this resolution.

Mr. Mwaungulu (Malawi) In past votes on similar draft resolutions, the Malawian delegation abstained.

She would have been ready to defer action on the process to the next session which was why she abstained on the motion for deferment.