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 declaration is non-binding because it simply calls on countries to draft and implement laws banning human cloning in any form, and is not mandatory is not the correct reason for voting against the Chinese government.