Passage of the resolution required a two-thirds majority of the valid votes, not counting abstaining and absent members, of the UN's then 56 member states.

Maybe, but they were set to abstain until quite late.

The vote was 10 to 1, with two members abstaining.

I abstained because we need to put our own house in order.

So that is why I have abstained on the report.

In the end I decided to abstain on the final report.

In view of this, I am abstaining from the report.

Some countries also abstained from the vote at the time.

Anything less than a four day trip, and we will abstain.

No man may abstain in such a vote on the security of the city.

This is why the Green group could not support the report, but abstained.

That is why we have decided to abstain on this report.

So we have decided to abstain in the final vote.

Study results show that about one person in seven is able to abstain for at least six months after taking part.

One member abstained and two others were not at the meeting, he said.

We are going to abstain on this report as well, for a number of reasons.

Why then did I abstain on the motion as a whole?

That is why we abstained in the vote on this report.

For this reason we have abstained on the final vote.

That is why I decided to abstain from the final vote.

For these reasons, we abstained from the vote on the report.

These are the reasons why our group abstained in the vote.

This is why we are abstaining from the final vote.

I abstained on this report for a number of reasons.

I will therefore abstain when it comes to the vote.

The freedom to help in the larger issues or to abstain.