| Date | 19 December 2006 |
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Agenda item 63
Promotion and protection of the rights of children
Report of the Third Committee (A/61/439)
The President
The Assembly has before it a draft resolution recommended by the Third Committee in paragraph 20 of its report and a draft decision recommended by the Committee in paragraph 21 of the same report.
We will now take a decision on the draft resolution entitled "Rights of the child".
I call on the representative of Uruguay, who wishes to speak on a point of order.
Mr. Álvarez (Uruguay)
I believe that a procedural problem has arisen. Two paragraphs of the draft resolution contained in document A/61/439 are different from those that were adopted in the Third Committee.
In the Committee, draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.16/Rev.1 was adopted, but with different content from the draft resolution that appears in the Committee's report. First, there is an editorial error in operative paragraph 12 (e), which must have occurred when the paragraph was included. The first line of this paragraph differs from that of the corresponding paragraph in the text of draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.16/Rev.1. There is also an error in operative paragraph 17 (a), in which the phrases appear in a different order. That is the responsibility of those who edited the text and could have consequences with regard to the text before us for adoption.
At the same time, we could proceed if there were agreement that the text on which we are taking action is as it appears in document A/C.3/61/L.16/Rev.1: the draft resolution as adopted by the Third Committee.
The President
In the absence of objection, we shall proceed to take action on the draft resolution as it was adopted in Third Committee, that is, as it appears in document A/C.3/61/L.16/Rev.1. A recorded vote has been requested.
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The draft resolution was adopted by 185 votes to 1 (resolution 61/146).
favour=185 against=1 abstain=0 absent=6
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
The President
We turn now to the draft decision entitled "Report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child". May I take it that the Assembly wishes to adopt the draft decision recommended by the Third Committee in paragraph 21 of its report (A/61/439)?
The President
I now give the floor to the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic for an explanation of vote on the resolution just adopted.
Mr. Ali (Syria)
The Assembly has just adopted resolution 61/146, on the rights of the child. My delegation voted in favour.
The Syrian Arab Republic is working on the ground, within its legislative and legal frameworks, to defend and strengthen childhood and the rights of the child. My country has acceded to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its two Optional Protocols. We have no objection whatsoever to the substance of the resolution just adopted, and we appreciate the efforts made by the countries that presented it.
However, we reserve the right to interpret operative paragraphs 8, 10, 11 and 28 of the resolution in the light of our national legislation, because our views on those matters were not taken into account during the informal consultations.
The President
May I take it that it is the wish of the General Assembly to conclude its consideration of agenda item 63?
