Nuclear Disarmament: UN Resolutions
(asked on 11th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons the UK Government voted against UN Resolution L41 which mandated the start of negotiations to ban nuclear weapons in 2017.
This question was answered on 21st November 2016
Our joint Explanation of Vote with the US and France sets out our views on the resolution. The text can be found here https://www.delegfrance-cd-geneve.org/71st-UNGA-Explanations-of-vote-ion-behalf-of-the-P3-10-27-2016 on the Permanent representation of France website.