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Summary: The Prevention of Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS) treaty resolution submitted in the UN First committee yearly since 1982 has always overwhelmingly passed. United States voted "no" twice, then has abstained 21 times, each year from 1984-2004, when it started voting *no* again (4 times), until again abstaining in 2009. It is quite clear that the military industrial complex does not want the successful negotiation of a new treaty to ban weapons in space. They are the source of US blockage of any progress.
2009: abstain (US & Israel)
Yes: 176, No: 0, Abstentions: 2, Non-Voting: 14, Total voting
membership: 192
2008: no (US) abstain (Israel)
Yes: 177, No: 1, Abstentions: 1, Non-Voting: 13, Total voting
membership: 192
2007: no (US) abstain (Israel)
Yes: 178, No: 1, Abstentions: 1, Non-Voting: 12, Total voting
membership: 192
2006: no (US) abstain (Israel)
Yes: 178, No: 1, Abstentions: 1, Non-Voting: 12, Total voting
membership: 192
2005: no (US & Israel)
Yes: 180, No: 2, Abstentions: 0, Non-Voting: 9, Total voting
