04.12.2012 - 10:38 [ Alllgemeine Versammlung der Vereinten Nationen / General Assembly of the United Nations ]

Resolutions Aim to Neutralize Nuclear-Weapon Threat, Open Passage To Multilateral Negotiations; Israel, Iran, Syria, South Africa Explain Votes

Calling on Israel to accede to the NPT without further delay — in another traditionally contested resolution — and on it not to develop, produce, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, to renounce possession of those weapons, and place all its unsafeguarded nuclear facilities under full-scope Agency safeguards, the Assembly welcomed the conclusions on the Middle East of the 2010 NPT Review Conference, according a resolution on risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, by a recorded vote of 174 in favour to 6 against (Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States) with 6 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, India, Panama)