On February 18, the 59th Session of the United Nations General Assembly's Legal Committee adopted a political declaration by a vote of 71 to 31, with 43 abstentions, calling on all countries to ban any form of human cloning that is contrary to human dignity  After 3 days of fierce debate, the law Committee of the 18th afternoon still failed to reach an agreement on the wording of the UN Declaration on human cloning  That evening, countries for and against therapeutic cloning agreed to put to a vote the proposed declaration supported by their respective camps  The proposal put forward by Honduras, which opposes therapeutic cloning, was adopted after oIS member states declared that they would not support either proposal
The United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Brazil voted in favor, while the Chinese government voted against
The Chinese government's veto does not mean that China supports reproductive cloning, that is, human cloning experiments, but opposes a ban on therapeutic cloning research for the purpose of curing diseases and saving lives