First up was a vote on "Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms". The Guardian notes that it has the support of a dozen Nobel peace prize laureates, and The Telegraph comments on the result of the vote.
Next, small arms:
A draft resolution on renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons:
This is the US explanation:
[Christina Rocca (USA)] said that she had voted against the draft, however, because of its support for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which the United States opposed. The same considerations applied to the draft on the treaty itself (L.48). She did support that draft’s operative paragraph 5, which condemned the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s nuclear test and asked it not to conduct further ones.
Now the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes:
A draft resolution on a nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas:
Explaining his vote on the nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere, L.20, and speaking on behalf of France, as well as the United States, JOHN DUNCAN ( United Kingdom) said that, as in past years, his delegations had voted against the resolution. Its preamble referred to the freedom of the high seas, while including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the high seas. He believed that was contradictory, as the area would not apply to the high seas.