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United States Abstains on General Assembly Resolution Proclaiming Human Right to Water and Sanitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

1 See UN Press Release, General Assembly Adopts Resolution Recognizing Access to Clean Water, Sanitation, as Human Right, by Recorded Vote of 122 in Favour, None Against, 41 Abstentions (July 28, 2010), at www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/gal0967.doc.htm.

2 GA Res. 64/292 (July 28, 2010).

3 U.S. Mission to the United Nations Press Release, Explanation of Vote by John F. Sammis, U.S. Deputy Representative to the Economic and Social Council, on Resolution A/64/L.63/Rev. 1, The Human Right to Water (July 28, 2010), at http://usun.state.gov/briefing/statements/2010/145279.htm.