The vote passed by 46 to 11, with three abstentions.
On July 13, Qatar's resolution, condemning the Israeli military assaults on Gaza and the Palestinian groups' firing of rockets at Israel and abduction of its soldiers, secured 10 votes with four abstentions.
After a failed "kidnapping" of him and another sister as schoolchildren, the obese and gormless Jean-Claude, a poor student, was next heard of in 1971 when his ailing father named him as the country's next "president-for-life" and had him endorsed in a rigged referendum (2,391,916 to one, with two abstentions).
But abstentions and votes against the measures leave Clegg facing a three-way threat in his party.
Hence the three-possibly-four-way split looming: votes for and against (Charles Kennedy and Ming Campbell), abstentions, and a vote to postpone the vote, with Clegg making an enforced virtue of self-parodic diversity.
Notably, many African countries were the most strongly supportive of an arms trade treaty while among the abstentions was Russia, the world's second biggest arms exporter after the US and a highly significant arms partner with much of Africa.
If deliberate abstentions are included, the vote in favour fell to just 46%, as shareholders expressed their disapproval of a rise in Brikho's pay to £850,000.
When Argentina tabled a motion calling for the UN to examine the issue of sovereign debt restructuring last autumn, 124 countries voted for it; 11, including the UK and the US, with their powerful financial lobbies, voted against; and there were 41 abstentions.
Voting was 133 in favour, with 12 against and 31 abstentions.
As with last week's 27-vote (plus 10 abstentions) Labour revolt against the introduction of the private and voluntary sector into probation work, the tension lies between rival claims of choice vs fairness and accountability.
The outcome was 61 votes against the bill, with four abstentions.
