Examples of using To abstain in the voting on the draft in English and their translations into Russian
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Albania decided to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
It is for those reasons that, once again this year, Canada has decided to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
Italy decided to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
Mr. de Séllos(Brazil)said that his delegation had chosen to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
We decided, therefore, to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution due to our concerns and reservations on a number of provisions contained therein.
However, we were compelled to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution because of certain references to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,on which India's position is well known.
My delegation will therefore be constrained to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
We were constrained to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution because of certain references to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons(NPT), on which India's position is well known.
For those reasons, our delegation decided to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
Since the proposed arms trade treaty is not a real solution to the problems of developing countries, my delegation does not share the aims of the treaty and, accordingly,opted to abstain in the voting on the draft decision.
We thus decided to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
Accordingly, Mexico felt obliged to abstain in the voting on the draft in the Fourth Committee and will once again abstain in the voting in this plenary meeting.
Ms. Kunadi(India): My delegation wishes to share with the Committee the considerations which led it to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
Mr. Kourou(Niger) said that his delegation had intended to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution on the situation of human rights in Iraq A/C.3/52/L.71.
However, the call for us to accede to the NPT as a non-nuclear-weapon State left us with no choice butto vote against operative paragraph 6 and to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution as a whole.
We have, however, been constrained to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution, since it incorporates references to the NPT,on which India's position is well known.
It was precisely these reasons that compelled Turkey to abstain in the voting on the draft resolutions on this subject for the past two years and that prevented Turkey from signing the Ottawa Convention last year.
Since the vote on this draft resolution in the First Committee my delegation has received fresh instructions to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution in the General Assembly.
This time, however, the Spanish delegation decided to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution, as it did at the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth sessions.
Mr. Sial(Pakistan) said that his delegation had voted in favour of the substantive amendments proposed by the African Group, but given the failure to adopt one of those amendments,it had been forced to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
For that reason, my delegation has opted to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
However, the decision by the sponsors to call for Pakistan's accession, without conditions, to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons(NPT) as a non-nuclear-weapon State left this delegation with no option butto vote against operative paragraph 6 and to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution as a whole.
That has enabled my delegation in recent years to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.
As was the case last year,the European Union has decided to abstain in the voting on the draft resolution on missiles.
Like last year,the European Union felt obliged to abstain in the vote on the draft resolution entitled"Missiles", contained this year in document A/C.1/56/L.6.
It was for those reasons that my delegation was obliged to abstain in the vote on the draft resolution as a whole.
For those reasons, my delegation decided to abstain in the vote on the draft resolution, and we hope that in future the subject will be dealt with in the Conference on Disarmament, where we will be able to deal with transparency measures in a comprehensive and non-discriminatory manner.