In favour: Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, Venezuela, Zambia. Against: France, Italy, Netherlands, United States of America. Abstaining: Belarus, Bulgaria, Japan, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain. 39. The representative of the United States of America then called for a vote on the draft resolution as a whole and the representative of Cuba requested that it be by roll call. 40. At the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft resolution, as orally revised, by a roll-call vote of 42 to 1 (see chap. I, sect. C, resolution 38/5). The voting was as follows: In favour: Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, France, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Italy, Japan, Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, Venezuela, Zambia. Against: United States of America. Abstaining: None. Gender equality in population programmes 41. At the 16th meeting, on 18 March 1994, the representative of the United States of America, on behalf of Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, 42/ Greece, 42/ Mali, 42/ Papua New Guinea, 42/ and the United States of America, introduced a draft resolution (E/CN.6/1994/L.15/Rev.1) entitled "Gender equality in population programmes". Subsequently, Canada 42/ and Portugal 42/ joined in sponsoring the draft resolution. 42. At the 17th meeting, on 18 March, the representative of the United States of America orally revised the draft resolution as follows: (a) In the last preambular paragraph, the words "that the aim" were replaced by the words "that one of the aims" and the words "must be to establish" were replaced by the words "should be to establish, as appropriate"; (b) section; (c) The fifth preambular paragraph was moved to the end of the preambular Operative paragraph 14, which had read: "Encourages Governments to review or propose legislation to eliminate all forms of coercion and discrimination in policies and practices related -77-