Voting Comparison

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

vs
3624 shared votes
95%
agreement
3426 agreed · 198 diverged
3624 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.

Slovakia
Romania Yes No Abstain
Yes 2129 14
No 614 36
Abstain 65 53 681

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
98% 466/476
Nuclear/Arms
89% 260/291
Colonialism
97% 296/305
Human Rights
97% 497/515
Economic Dev.
94% 197/209
Disarmament
93% 390/419
Overall
95% 3426/3624

Most Divergent Votes

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

Resolution Romania Slovakia Y / N / A
A/RES/56/146
Equitable geographical distribution of the membership of the human rights instr…
2001
no abstain 113 / 47 / 5
32/95
Emergency assistance for South African refugee students
1977
no abstain 113 / 47 / 5
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 yes 84 / 34 / 37
A/RES/59/280
United Nations declaration on human cloning : resolution / adopted by the Gener…
2005
abstain yes 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
32/100
Assistance to Guinea-Bissau
1977
abstain no 127 / 30 / 23
A/RES/63/49
Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the …
2008
abstain no 127 / 30 / 23

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