Tom abstained from voting.

As for him who gave out his wealth (for Allah's sake) and abstained (from disobeying Him),

As for him who gave out his wealth (for Allah's sake) and abstained (from disobeying Him),

The two delegations had therefore abstained in the vote.

His delegation also called on others, especially delegations which had previously abstained from voting on similar draft resolutions, to support Uzbekistan.

To that end, we abstained in the voting on the Declaration.

For the reasons I have outlined, my delegation abstained in the voting.

For those reasons, Brazil abstained in the voting on the resolution on the referral.

On reform of the Security Council, we have noted that the Secretary General has wisely abstained from directly advocating any models for increasing the membership of the Council.

My delegation therefore abstained in the voting on draft resolution A C.1 60 L.56.

Mr. Wang Guangya (China) (spoke in Chinese) The Chinese delegation abstained in the voting on the resolution.

The Working Group points out first that the Government did not refute the allegation of the source that Mr. Zhang has abstained, during all his activities, from any form of violence.

Mr. Percaya (Indonesia) My delegation abstained in the voting on draft resolution A C.1 60 L.22.

Mr. Maqungo (South Africa) We abstained in the voting on the Declaration and take this opportunity to explain our vote.

Since Kazakhstan is not a signatory to the Convention, my delegation has abstained in the voting on the draft resolution.

The Mission has also received accounts of further threats made to Mr. Hariri by security officials in case he abstained from voting in favour of the extension or even thought of leaving the country .

The representative of Pakistan stated that he abstained because he was of the view that no one should be condemned unheard.

Mr. Vasiliev (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian) Russia abstained in the voting on draft resolution A C.1 60 L.56.

We abstained because we believe that the Convention contains significant imbalances an issue that we have raised repeatedly in the Assembly over the years.

She would have been ready to defer action on the process to the next session which was why she abstained on the motion for deferment.

My delegation abstained in the vote on draft resolution A C.1 60 L.22 because The Hague Code of Conduct is selective and discriminatory.

Hamas s crushing defeat of Fatah in this week s elections brings the Palestinian people to a crossroads. An Islamist political party that previously abstained from national politics and rejects Fatah s policy of negotiations with Israel, is now in charge in Palestine.

As at previous sessions, the delegation of Cuba abstained in the vote on the draft resolution on implementation of the Ottawa Convention on anti personnel mines.

Since its adoption, nuclear testing has virtually stopped, and all 182 signatory states have abstained from testing nuclear explosives. The three countries that have failed to ratify the CTBT and have tested such devices India, Pakistan, and North Korea have faced universal condemnation from the UN Security Council, and UN sanctions.

Ms. Taylor (Australia) said that, while Australia strongly supported the continued existence of UNIFIL, it had abstained in the vote on the draft resolution because of unwarranted political considerations which had distracted the Committee's attention from the budgetary issues that should rightly remain its focus.

Although the Government abstained from commenting on the allegations of the source, although it was given the opportunity to submit observations, the Working Group is able to deliver, on the basis of the detailed information provided by the source, an opinion on the communication.

Because of our concerns, we do not agree to a Security Council referral of the situation in Darfur to the ICC and abstained in the voting on today's resolution.

When We told the angels to prostrate before Adam, they all obeyed except Iblis (Satan) who abstained out of pride and so he became one of those who deny the truth.

When We told the angels to prostrate before Adam, they all obeyed except Iblis (Satan) who abstained out of pride and so he became one of those who deny the truth.

Although we abstained on this Security Council referral to the ICC, we have not dropped, and indeed continue to maintain, our long standing and firm objections and concerns regarding the ICC.

Mr. Gala López (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish) As it did on a similar text last year, my delegation abstained in the vote on draft resolution A C.1 60 L.22.

In the Third Committee, many Asian and African countries voted against or abstained on the European Union's draft resolution, based on a principled position against politicization, double standards and selectivity on human rights issues.

I should recall that Brazil abstained in the voting on Security Council resolution 1593 (2005), given that, in our view, our full commitment to the Court could not be adequately reflected in that text.

Nonetheless, the BRICS have acted in concert on more than one occasion. Last March, amid near universal condemnation of Russia s annexation of Crimea, the country s BRICS counterparts even those that had long supported the inviolability of borders and non intervention abstained from a UN General Assembly resolution affirming Ukraine s unity and territorial integrity.

The delegations of Mali, Uganda and Zambia subsequently indicated that had they been present, they would have voted in favour and the delegation of the Sudan indicated that had it been present, it would have abstained.

In past years, the Republic of Azerbaijan abstained in the voting on the draft resolution entitled Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their Destruction .

In response to that statement, the then Chairman of the Special Committee on Decolonization, Ambassador Huntley, sent Mr. Rammell a letter in which he reminded Mr. Rammell that the United Kingdom has been one of the authors of resolution 1541 (XV) and had abstained from voting solely because of differences over the issue of transmission of information.

Consider Russia s invasion and annexation of Crimea earlier this year. Though the move clearly violated Ukraine s territorial integrity, 11 countries voted against the UN resolution condemning the action, and 58 countries including all of the non Western powers abstained.

'So now you see, she said. 'This is he you blamed me for. Yes, I solicited him, but he abstained. Yet if he will not do what I command him, he shall be imprisoned, and be one of the humbled.'

'So now you see, she said. 'This is he you blamed me for. Yes, I solicited him, but he abstained. Yet if he will not do what I command him, he shall be imprisoned, and be one of the humbled.'

Mr. Gala López (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish) With respect to draft resolution I, entitled Compliance with non proliferation, arms limitation and disarmament agreements , contained in the report of the First Committee (A 60 463), my delegation abstained for the following reasons.

She said that then is he in regard to whom ye reproached me. Assuredly solicited him against himself but he abstained and if he doth not that which I command him, he shall surely be imprisoned and he shall surely be of the degraded.

She said that then is he in regard to whom ye reproached me. Assuredly solicited him against himself but he abstained and if he doth not that which I command him, he shall surely be imprisoned and he shall surely be of the degraded.

She said, This is the one on whose account you subjected me to all this blame. I tried to seduce him but he abstained. If he does not yield to me, I shall order him to be locked up in prison to make him humble.

She said, This is the one on whose account you subjected me to all this blame. I tried to seduce him but he abstained. If he does not yield to me, I shall order him to be locked up in prison to make him humble.