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United Nations Proposals Concerning Chemical and Bacteriological Weapons*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

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Treaties and Agreements
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1970

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Footnotes

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[The U.N. General Assembly adopted Resolutions A and B on December 16, 1969, respectively by votes of 80 in favor, 3 against, with 36 abstentions and 120 in favor, none against, with 1 abstention. The recorded vote on Resolution A is as follows: In favor – Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Byelorussia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Chad, Colombia, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Democratic Republic of), Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Finland, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Poland, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Southern Yemen, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, U.S.S.R., United Arab Republic, United Republic of Tanzania, Upper Volta, Yemen, and Yugoslavia; Against – Australia, Portugal, and United States; Abstaining – Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Greece, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Laos, Liberia, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Swaziland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The vote was not recorded for Resolution B.

[The draft Convention for the Prohibition of Biological Methods of Warfare, submitted to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament by the United Kingdom, appears at page 382. The draft Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Chemical and Bacteriological Weapons and on the Destruction of such Weapons, submitted to the U.N. General Assembly by Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and U.S.S.R., appears at page 386.]

References

1/ League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. XCIV (1929), No. 2138.

2/ Resolution 2162 B (XXI) of 5 December 1966.

3/ United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.69.I.24.

4/ League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. XCIV (1929), No. 2138.

5/ See A/7655.

6/ See A/7741, annex C, document ENEC/255/Rev.1.