| Canada's Voting Record on Middle East Resolutions Tabled Yearly at the UN General Assembly | ||||||||||
| "the annual ritual of politicized anti-Israel resolutions" - Former Prime Minister Paul Martin, November 13, 2005 | ||||||||||
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| Resolution * | Canada Votes | U.S. Votes | Australia Votes | |||||||
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2005 | 2006 | 2005 | 2006 | ||
| 1 | Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People | Abstain | Abstain | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 2 | Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat | Abstain | Abstain | Abstain | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 3 | Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Abstain | No | No | No | No |
| 4 | Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Abstain | Abstain | No | No | No | No |
| 5 | Jerusalem - any actions taken by Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem are illegal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Abstain | Abstain |
| 6 | The Syrian Golan | Abstain | Abstain | Abstain | No | No | No | No | Abstain | Abstain |
| 7 | Assistance to Palestine refugees | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Abstain | Abstain | Yes | Yes |
| 8 | Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| 9 | Operations of UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| 10 | Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| 11 | Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories | Abstain | Abstain | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 12 | Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Abstain | Abstain |
| 13 | Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| 14 | Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem | Yes | Yes | Abstain | Abstain | No | No | No | No | No |
| 15 | The occupied Syrian Golan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Abstain | Abstain | Abstain | Yes |
| 16 | Situation of and assistance to Palestinian children | Abstain | Abstain | Abstain | N/T | N/T | N/T | N/T | N/T | N/T |
| 17 | The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Abstain | No | No | Abstain | Abstain |
| 18 | Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Abstain | No | No | No | No |
| N/T = Not tabled | Canada | U.S. | Australia | |||||||
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2005 | 2006 | 2005 | 2006 | ||
| Governing Party | Lib | Lib | Lib | Lib | Cons | Rep | Rep | ALP | ALP | |
| Total votes | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | |
| Voted to CENSURE Israel (Yes) | 13 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | |
| Voted to SUPPORT Israel (No) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 8 | |
| ABSTAINED from voting (Abstain) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | |
| * Summary covers Middle East resolutions tabled yearly at the United Nations General Assembly. All are critical and demanding of Israel, while there are no balancing resolutions comparably critical or demanding of the Palestinians. These are resolutions tabled only at the UN General Assembly, and not at smaller special assemblies such as the UN Economic and Social Council. | ||||||||||
| Lib = Liberal Party of Canada Cons = Conservative Party of Canada Rep = US Republican Party ALP = Australian Labor Party | ||||||||||
| UN Watch: Voting Record on Anti-Israel Resolutions at 61st General Assembly | ||||||||||
| http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.2264593/k.14EE/AntiIsrael_Resolutions_at_61st_GA.htm | ||||||||||
| Text of Resolutions: | ||||||||||
| 1 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/fe79ec2a36c57f2585256fb90058d0a1!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 2 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/1d0e7a4c4dd1dff385256fa800699a8b!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 3 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/0ae27139b76d31d085256fa8006bb453!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 4 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/fd1845fc56d28cca85256fc0006a16d9!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 5 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/246da396d14e07dd85256fa8006c4ee1!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 6 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/bfd02210c0e74d2885256fa8006d622f!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 7 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/dc9036e1764d4a3785256f800076787a!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 8 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/c25c7c72d0063bb085256f8000774425!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 9 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/3bf032fdb6b016c185256f800077d4ce!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 10 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/5a345c91fa68efcf85256f800078ad0d!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 11 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/e69bf11b6046d0fa85256f9e0055c0ef!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 12 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/f07fd9bf4c18303085256f9c0055bc32!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 13 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/9f10cc02202a863785256fa2005aa7e1!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 14 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/a803f1bdf08568b285256f9c0058a31d!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 15 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/0a41bb9ade1dcd0b85256f9c0059bf0b!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 16 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/e6607196dff8dc7f85256fda00737d1f!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 17 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/ca5532badb8f44cc85256fd900536869!OpenDocument | |||||||||
| 18 | http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/a06f2943c226015c85256c40005d359c/323f44a4e240563b85256fd900542c14!OpenDocument | |||||||||
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