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CHAPTER 6: VOTING

Updates to Chapter 6 include new developments relating to the veto and statements made at the time of voting.

Sections

 

 

1. Substantive decisions and the veto   Updated on 15 Jan. 2025


2. Insufficient affirmative votes   Updated on 15 Jan. 2025


3. Procedural matters and the ‘double veto’  Updated on 13 Jan. 2025


4. Voting on the establishment of subsidiary organs


5. Voting on amendments   Updated on 1 Aug. 2018


6. Separate voting on paragraphs


7. Interruption of voting


8. Unanimity, consensus, and adoption by acclamation


9. Abstentions   Updated on 13 Jan. 2020


10. Non-participation in the vote   Updated on 1 Nov. 2024


11. Absences


12. Finality of the voting process


13. Statements before or after the vote


14. Draft resolutions withdrawn or not brought to a vote


15. Reconsideration of texts not adopted

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