Key Votes

Closest recorded-vote margins and splits among the five permanent Security Council members.

Closest margins P5 splits
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Votes where at least one P5 member voted Yes and at least one voted No. Showing 1–47 of 47.

Resolution Title Date Yes No Abstain
RUS
USA
GBR
CHN
FRA
31/37 GA United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon 1976-11-12 92 9 74
A N A Y A
A/RES/64/105 GA Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted… 2009-12-10 173 3 1
Y N N Y A
A/RES/64/98 GA Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peopl… 2009-12-10 173 2 2
Y N A Y A
A/RES/64/106 GA Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to … 2009-12-10 172 3 2
Y N N Y A
A/RES/64/92 GA Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of … 2009-12-10 168 6 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/89 GA Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestin… 2009-12-10 167 6 4
Y N Y Y Y
31/125 GA International Year for Disabled Persons 1976-12-13 167 7 3
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/94 GA Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian peopl… 2009-12-10 162 9 5
Y N Y Y Y
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 168 6 4
Y N Y Y Y
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 166 7 4
Y N Y Y Y
32/95 GA Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1977-11-28 162 9 5
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/90 GA Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues : resolution / adop… 2009-12-10 168 6 3
Y N Y Y Y
32/97 GA Assistance to Botswana 1977-12-13 172 3 2
Y N N Y A
A/RES/64/91 GA Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israel Practices Affecti… 2009-12-10 92 9 74
A N A Y A
31/125 GA International Year for Disabled Persons 1976-12-13 167 6 4
Y N Y Y Y
32/95 GA Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1977-11-28 168 6 3
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/88 GA Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostili… 2009-12-10 166 7 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/93 GA Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including … 2009-12-10 167 7 3
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/17 GA Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat 2009-12-02 112 9 54
A N A Y A
A/RES/64/23 GA Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Pe… 2009-12-02 128 3 45
Y N N Y N
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 116 50 12
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/21 GA The Syrian Golan 2009-12-02 116 7 51
Y N A Y A
57/229 GA Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Conven… 2002-12-18 124 31 21
N N N Y N
A/RES/64/20 GA Jerusalem 2009-12-02 163 7 5
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/44 GA Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resoluti… 2009-12-02 170 3 6
Y N N Y N
A/RES/64/34 GA Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proli… 2009-12-02 122 5 49
Y N N Y A
A/RES/64/66 GA The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / a… 2009-12-02 167 6 6
Y N Y Y Y
32/97 GA Assistance to Botswana 1977-12-13 122 5 49
Y N N Y A
A/RES/64/55 GA Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justi… 2009-12-02 124 31 21
N N N Y N
A/RES/64/53 GA Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2009-12-02 111 45 19
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/59 GA Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolut… 2009-12-02 116 50 12
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/19 GA Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine 2009-12-02 164 7 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/18 GA Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Dep… 2009-12-02 162 8 5
Y N Y Y Y
A/64/382 GA Objective information on military matters, including transparency of … 2009-12-02 128 3 45
Y N N Y N
A/RES/64/16 GA Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinia… 2009-12-02 109 8 55
A N A Y A
56/170 GA Protection of migrants 2001-12-19 111 45 19
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/57 GA Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world : accelerating the implementation… 2009-12-02 169 5 5
Y N A Y N
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 124 3 51
Y N A Y A
A/RES/64/189 GA Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coe… 2009-11-16 124 3 51
Y N A Y A
A/RES/64/185 GA Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Pales… 2009-11-16 165 8 7
Y N Y Y Y
31/37 GA United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon 1976-11-12 122 47 8
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/188 GA International trade and development : resolution / adopted by the Gen… 2009-11-16 122 47 8
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/195 GA Oil slick on Lebanese shores : resolution / adopted by the General As… 2009-11-16 164 8 7
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/10 GA Follow-up to the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on… 2009-11-05 114 18 44
A N A Y A
A/RES/63/307 GA Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Ge… 2009-09-09 48 19 78
N Y Y A Y
A/RES/63/298 GA Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution… 2009-06-30 134 2 0
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/ES-10/18 GA General Assembly resolution supporting the immediate ceasefire accord… 2009-01-16 142 4 8
Y N Y Y Y