[Vision2020] The 63rd UN General Assembly and the Right to Food

[Bill London]

After January 20, the US no longer be the lone vote against our common 
humanity and the US will stop being a pariah among nations.
BL




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 6:06 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] The 63rd UN General Assembly and the Right to Food


> There were several interesting votes, conducted by the 63rd UN General
> Assembly (concerning refugees, social development, advancement of women,
> promotion/protection of children's rights, right of peoples to self-
> determination, etc. etc.), and I encourage you to read them.  However,
> results of one particular vote (the right to food) disgusted me deeply as
> an American.  The United State was the ONLY country to vote against it.
> If anybody on this listserve feels that my belief in everybody't right to
> food is, somehow, un-American or anti-American, simply because my belief
> does not support the vote submitted by our government, PLEASE explain.
>
> Excerpted from the Sixty-third General Assembly of the United Nations at:
>
> http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/ga10801.doc.htm
>
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>
> Vote on Right to Food
>
> The draft resolution on the right to food (document A/63/430/Add.2) was
> adopted by a recorded vote of 184 in favour to 1 against, with no
> abstentions, as follows:
>
> In favour:  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 Darussalam,
> Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central
> African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa
> Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic
> People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican
> Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, 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, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's
> Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya,
> Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia,
> Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico,
> Micronesia (Federated States of), Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco,
> Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand,
> Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama,
> Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea,
> Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and
> Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino,
> Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone,
> Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa,
> Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria,
> Tajikistan, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-
> Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan,
> Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Republic of
> Tanzania, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen,
> Zambia, Zimbabwe.
>
> Against:  United States.
>
> Abstain:  None.
>
> Absent:  Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea,
> Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Uganda.
>
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>
> Merry Christmas, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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