Voting Comparison

Compare how two countries, blocs, or a country and a bloc voted on UN resolutions.

vs
3795 shared votes
94%
agreement
3558 agreed · 237 diverged
3795 shared votes

Agreement Trend over Time

Agreement rate per year (years with ≥2 shared votes). Click a point or year label to filter the vote list below.

Position Matrix

How often each combination of positions occurred across all shared votes.

Lithuania
Romania Yes No Abstain
Yes 2181 5 42
No 1 639 26
Abstain 56 63 733

green = same position   amber = different position

Breakdown by Voeten Topic

Agreement rate per issue area (Voeten dataset, GA resolutions only). Dashed line shows overall agreement rate.

Middle East
95% 503/530
Nuclear/Arms
87% 270/312
Colonialism
91% 305/334
Human Rights
95% 510/537
Economic Dev.
91% 203/223
Disarmament
91% 403/445
Overall
94% 3558/3795

Most Divergent Votes

Resolutions where the two sides diverged most, sorted by how contested the overall vote was.

Resolution Romania Lithuania Y / N / A
A/RES/49/75K
Request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) o…
1994
no abstain 78 / 43 / 38
A/RES/50/11
Multilingualism : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1995
yes non_voting 97 / 36 / 29
32/99
Assistance to Cape Verde
1977
no yes 110 / 35 / 24
A/RES/47/15
Activities of those foreign economic and other interests which impede the imple…
1992
no non_voting 95 / 34 / 12
A/RES/48/123
Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations System for …
1993
no abstain 115 / 34 / 21
A/59/516/Add.1
United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning
2005
abstain no 84 / 34 / 37
A/RES/59/280
United Nations declaration on human cloning : resolution / adopted by the Gener…
2005
abstain no 84 / 34 / 37
A/RES/48/168
Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against develop…
1993
non_voting no 116 / 32 / 16
57/229
Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Pr…
2002
abstain no 124 / 31 / 21
A/RES/64/55
Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the …
2009
abstain no 124 / 31 / 21
32/132
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1977
abstain no 100 / 30 / 22
A/RES/50/96
Economic measures as a means of political and economic coersion against develop…
1995
abstain no 100 / 30 / 22

Agreements on Contested Votes

Resolutions where both sides voted the same way despite significant opposition from others.

Resolution Both voted Y / N / A
A/RES/68/144
Report of the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2013
no 94 / 71 / 23
40/233
Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Salvador
1985
no 79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/65/224
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010
no 79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/61/166
Promotion of equitable and mutually respectful dialogue on human rights : resolution / ad…
2006
no 86 / 64 / 26
39/192
Question of the United States Virgin Islands
1984
no 86 / 64 / 26
A/RES/57/230
Situation of human rights in the Sudan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2002
yes 80 / 62 / 33
A/RES/64/156
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010
no 80 / 61 / 42
A/RES/74/247
Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes :…
2019
no 79 / 60 / 33