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Nations meeting at the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency's general conference voted 58-45 against the resolution on Thursday, while 27 abstained.
Backed by 18 Arab states, including Syria, the resolution expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
"about the Israeli nuclear capabilities," urging Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and put its nuclear facilities under international oversight. Israel has never acknowledged that it possesses nuclear weapons.
Separately, the conference voted 117-0, with 13 abstentions, in favor of a resolution submitted by Egypt that called on "all states in the region" to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
On Wednesday, Arab countries circulated the resolution that singled out Israel.
The draft echoed previous such resolutions at annual meetings of the Vienna-based ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency.