I have been waiting for someone else to post, but here it is:  the vote
was 214 in favor of expelling NAMBLA (and two other groups:  Vereniging
Martijn and Prject Truth/Free Will), and 30 against.  The vote needed
80% of those voting to carry, so the motion WAS carried.

Some arguments in favor of the motion to expel (from the minutes of the
debate):  this was not a new issue but has been debated since 1988, the
importance of UN observer status, the impossiblity or great difficulty of
being recognized by the European Community and the council of Europe if
the motion did not pass, general objections to pedophilia and a refusal to
establish any age of consent, objections from Japan and Africa to NAMLA's
portrayal of intergenerational sex in those places, the belief that ILGA's
hard won gains would be fatally compromised by its failure to expel NAMBLA.

Some arguments in opposition of the motion to expel: the right wing will never
be satisfied by this but will demand more compomises, ILGA should be self-
defined, the lack of criteria for expulsion, NAMBLA had not contradicted the
aims of ILGA.

Lenore Beaky
bellg@cunyvm.cuny.edu