text: 61 votes to 33, with 36 abstentions. ; ... A/C.4,139/SR.l8 English Paqe 11 39. Mr. ELMIRY (Qatar), Mr. AL-SABAH (Kuwait), Mr. MOHAMED (United Arab Emirates) and Mr. AL-Q.AHTANI (Bahrain) said that their votes had been misrecorded and should have been in favour. 40. A recorded vote was taken on the draft decision on St. Helena as a whole. In favour: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Conqo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Democratic Yemen, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea~Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hunqary, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, ·Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nicaraqua, Niqer, Niqeria, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Yuqoslavia, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Against: Grenada, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America. Abstaining: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Federal Republic of, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Sweden, Turkey. 41. The draft decision on St. Helena was adgpted as a whole by 111 votes to 3, with 26 abstentions. Question of American Samoa (A/39/23 (Part VI), chap. XVII, para. 10) 
analysis: The text appears to be a record of a vote on a draft decision regarding St. Helena, a territory, and the question of American Samoa. The language used suggests that the decision is related to governance or territorial status, rather than a specific economic, environmental, or social issue.