Bush Administration Votes at the UN

Bush Administration Votes at the UN

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

2001

55/180 B (Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) — 6/14/2001 US Vote: No
55/264 (UNDOF) — 6/14/2001 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
56/21 (Nuclear weapon-free zone in the Mideast) — 11/29/2001 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
56/27 (Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East) — 11/29/2001 US Vote: No
56/29 (Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean Region) — 11/29/2001 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
56/31 (Mideast Situation/Jerusalem) — 12/3/2001 US Vote: Abstain
56/32 (Golan) — 12/3/2001 US Vote: No
56/33 (Palestine Question) — 12/3/2001 US Vote: No
56/34 (Palestine Question) — 12/3/2001 US Vote: No
56/35 (Palestine Question) — 12/3/2001 US Vote: No
56/47 (Cooperation Between the UN and OIC) — 12/7/2001 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
56/52 (Palestinian Refugees) — 12/10/2001 US Vote: Abstain
56/53 (Palestinian refugees and UNRWA financing) — 12/10/2001 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
56/54 (Palestinian Refugees as Displaced Persons) — 12/10/2001 US Vote: No
56/55 (Palestine refugees - Higher education) — 12/20/2001 US Vote: Yes
56/56 (Palestinian Refugees and UNRWA operations) — 12/10/2001 US Vote: No
56/57 (Palestinian Refugees and properties) — 12/10/2001 US Vote: No
56/58 (Palestinian Refugess Al- Quds University) — 12/10/2001 US Vote: No
56/59 (Israeli practices in the OPT) — 12/10/2001 US Vote: No
56/60 (Israeli Practices and the Fourth Geneve Convention) — 12/10/2001 US Vote: No
56/61 (Israeli Settlements and Practices in the OTn) — 12/10/2001 US Vote: No
56/62 (Israeli Practices in the OT/Human Rights) — 12/10/2001 US Vote: No
56/63 (Israeli Practices in the Golan) — 12/10/2001 US Vote: Abstain
56/94 (IAEA) — 12/14/2001 US Vote: Yes
56/111 (Assistance to the Palestinian People) — 12/14/2001 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
ES-10/8 (Jerusalem/Settlements/Monitoring mechanism) — 12/20/2001 US Vote: No
ES-10/9 (Jerusalem/Settlements/Fourth Geneva Convention/Protection) — 12/20/2001 US Vote: No
56/142 (The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination) — 12/19/2001 US Vote: No
56/204 (Sovereignty over natural resources in the occupied territories) — 12/21/2001 US Vote: No
56/214 (UNIFIL) — 12/21/2001

US Vote: No

2002

ES-10/10 (Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory) — 5/7/2002 US Vote: No
56/294 (UNDOF) — 6/27/2002 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
ES-10/11 (Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory) — 9/10/2002 US Vote: No
57/42 (Cooperation Between UN and OIC) — 11/21/2002 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
57/55 (Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East) — 11/22/2002 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
57/97 (Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East) — 11/22/2002 US Vote: No
57/99 (Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean) — 11/22/2002 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
57/107 (Palestine Question) — 12/3/2002 US Vote: No
57/108 (Palestine Question) — 12/3/2002 US Vote: No
57/109 (Palestine Question) — 12/3/2002 US Vote: No
57/110 (Palestine Question) — 12/3/2002 US Vote: No
57/111 (Jerusalem) — 12/3/2002 US Vote: No
57/112 (Mideast situation/Golan) — 12/3/2002 US Vote: No
57/117 (Assistance to Palestine refugees) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: Abstain
57/118 (Palestine refugees and UNRWA Financing) — 12/11/2002 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
57/119 (Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: No
57/120 (Offers by Member States of grants and scholarships for higher education, including vocational training, for Palestine refugees) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: Yes
57/121 (UNRWA) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: No
57/122 (Palestine refugees) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: No
57/123 (University of Jerusalem "Al-Quds" for Palestine refugees) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: No
57/124 (Israeli Practices) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: No
57/125 (Applicability of the Geneva Convention) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: No
57/126 (Israeli settlements) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: No
57/127 (Israeli Practices) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: No
57/128 (The occupied Syrian Golan) — 12/11/2002 US Vote: Abstain
57/147 (Assistance to the Palestinian people) — 12/16/2002 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
57/198 (The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination) — 12/18/2002 US Vote: No
57/269 (Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory) — 12/20/2002

US Vote: No

2003

57/188 (Situation of and assistance to Palestinian children) — 2/6/2003- US Vote: No
57/324 (UNDOF) — 6/18/2003-ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
57/337 (Prevention of armed conflict) — 6/18/2003-ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
ES-10/12 (Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory) — 9/25/2003- US Vote: No
ES-10/13 (Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory [Security Fence]) — 10/27/2003- US Vote: No
58/18 (Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People) — 11/20/2003- US Vote: No
58/19 (Question of Palestine) — 11/20/2003- US Vote: No
58/20 (Special information programme on the question of Palestine) — 11/20/2003- US Vote: No
58/21 (Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine) — 11/21/2003- US Vote: No
58/23 (Mideast situation/Golan) — 11/21/2003- US Vote: No
58/34 (Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East) — 12/19/2003-ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
ES-10/14 (Referral of security fence issue to International Court of Justice) — 12/3/2003- US Vote: No
58/68 (Nuclear proliferation in the Middle East) — 12/19/2003-- US Vote: No
58/91 (Assistance to Palestine refugees) — 12/17/2003- US Vote: Abstain
58/92 (Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities) — 12/17/2003- US Vote: No
58/93 (Palestine refugees) — 12/17/2003- US Vote: No
58/94 (UNRWA) — 12/17/2003- US Vote: No
58/95 (Assistance to Palestine refugees) — 12/17/2003-US Vote: Yes
58/96 (Israeli Practices) — 12/17/2003- US Vote: No
58/97 (Applicability of the Geneva Convention) — 12/17/2003- US Vote: No
58/98 (Israeli settlements) — 12/17/2003- US Vote: No
58/99 (Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people) — 12/17/2003- US Vote: No
58/100 (The occupied Syrian Golan) — 12/17/2003- US Vote: Abstain
58/113 (Assistance to the Palestinian people) — 12/10/2003-US Vote: Yes
58/155 (Situation of and assistance to Palestinian children) — 12/22/2003

US Vote: No

2004

58/70 (Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region) — 1/7/2004 ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE
58/292 (Status of the Occupied Palestinian Territory) — 5/6/200 US Vote: No
ES/10 (Follow-up to ICJ advisory opinion on security fence) — 7/20/2004 US Vote: No

SECURITY COUNCIL

2001

1337 (UNIFIL) — 1/30/01 US Vote: Yes

1351 (UNDOF) — 5/30/01 US Vote: Yes

1365 (UNIFIL) — 7/31/01 US Vote: Yes

1381 (UNDOF) — 11/27/01

US Vote: Yes

2002

1391 (UNIFIL) — 1/28/02 US Vote: Yes

1397 (Affirms vision of two states, Israel and Palestine, and calls for end to violence) — 3/12/02 US Vote: Yes

1402 (Mideast Situation) — 3/30/02 US Vote: Yes

1403 (Mideast Situation) — 4/4/02 US Vote: Yes

1405 (Humanitarian situation in the OPT) — 4/19/02 US Vote: Yes

1415 (UNDOF) — 5/30/02 US Vote: Yes

1428 (UNIFIL) — 7/30/02 US Vote: Yes

1435 (Mideast Situation) — 9/24/02 US Vote: Abstain

1451 (UNDOF) — 12/17/02

US Vote: Yes

2003

1456 (Combatting Terrorism) — 1/20/03 US Vote: Yes

1461 (UNIFIL) — 1/30/03 US Vote: Yes

1488 (UNDOF) — 6/26/03 US Vote: Yes

1496 (UNIFIL) — 7/31/03 US Vote: Yes

1515 (Endorsement of the road map for peace) — 11/19/03

US Vote: Yes

2004

1544 (Condemning Israel's actions in the Rafah (Gaza) area) — 5/19/04 US Vote: Abstain

US VETOS OF UN RESOLUTIONS

Call for UN Observers Force in West Bank, Gaza 3/27/2001 Vetoed 9-1 (US), with four abstentions (Britain, France, Ireland and Norway)
Condemned acts of terror, demanded an end to violence and the establishment of a monitoring mechanism to bring in observers. 12/15/2001 Vetoed 12-1 (US) with two abstentions (Britain and Norway)
On the killing by Israeli forces of several UN employees and the destruction of the World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse 12/20/2002 12-1 (US) with 2 abstentions (Bulgaria and Cameroon)
Demand that Israel halt threats to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat 9/16/03 Vetoed 11-1 (US) with three abstentions (Britain, Germany and Bulgaria)
Seeks to bar Israel from extending security fence 10/14/03 Vetoed 10-1 with four absentations (Britain, Germany, Bulgaria and Cameroon)
Condemns Israel for killing Ahmed Yassin 3/25/04 Vetoed 11-1 (US) with three absentations (Britain, Germany, Romania