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 51–91 of 91.

Resolution Title Date Yes No Abstain
RUS
USA
GBR
CHN
FRA
32/95 GA Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1977-11-28 164 5 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/58/93 GA Operations of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees i… 2003-12-09 162 5 8
Y N Y Y Y
31/125 GA International Year for Disabled Persons 1976-12-13 156 6 13
Y N Y Y Y
31/37 GA United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon 1976-11-12 87 7 78
A N A Y A
32/95 GA Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1977-11-28 150 6 19
Y N A Y Y
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 168 5 3
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/58/98 GA Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including … 2003-12-09 156 6 13
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/58/68 GA The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / a… 2003-12-08 162 4 10
Y N Y Y Y
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 113 3 57
Y N A Y A
32/99 GA Assistance to Cape Verde 1977-12-13 73 48 46
A N N Y N
32/100 GA Assistance to Guinea-Bissau 1977-11-28 118 12 46
Y N N Y A
32/101 GA Assistance to Guinea-Bissau 1977-11-28 173 1 4
Y N — Y A
40/230 GA Situa- tion of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Sal- vador 1985-12-13 133 6 38
A N N Y N
48/140 GA The situation in the Sudan 1993-12-20 112 45 20
A N N Y N
56/230 GA Situation of human rights in Iraq 2001-12-24 164 2 14
Y N Y A Y
31/37 GA United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon 1976-11-12 133 6 38
Y N N Y N
31/127 GA Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1976-12-01 118 46 13
A N N Y N
A/RES/ES-10/14 GA Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of th… 2003-12-08 90 8 74
A N A Y A
A/RES/58/33 GA Role of science and technology in the context of international securi… 2003-12-08 106 49 19
A N N Y N
A/RES/58/37 GA Missiles : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2003-12-08 113 3 57
Y N A Y A
A/RES/58/43 GA Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context … 2003-12-08 73 48 46
A N N Y N
A/RES/58/44 GA Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proli… 2003-12-08 118 12 46
Y N N Y A
A/RES/58/45 GA Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation … 2003-12-08 173 1 4
Y N A Y A
A/RES/58/49 GA Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resoluti… 2003-12-08 168 3 8
A N N Y N
A/RES/58/56 GA Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2003-12-08 112 45 20
A N N Y N
A/RES/58/59 GA A path to total elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted… 2003-12-08 164 2 14
Y N Y A Y
A/RES/58/64 GA Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolut… 2003-12-08 118 46 13
A N N Y N
A/RES/58/71 GA Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty : resolution / adopted by the G… 2003-12-08 173 1 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/58/29 GA Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Pe… 2003-12-08 130 3 42
Y N N Y N
A/RES/58/46 GA Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justi… 2003-12-08 124 29 22
N N N Y N
A/RES/58/51 GA Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world : a new agenda : resolution / ado… 2003-12-08 133 6 38
A N N Y N
A/RES/58/18 GA Question of Palestine 2003-12-03 97 7 60
A N A Y A
A/RES/58/22 GA Jerusalem 2003-12-03 155 8 7
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/58/21 GA Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine 2003-12-03 160 6 5
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/58/20 GA Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Dep… 2003-12-03 159 6 6
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/58/19 GA Question of Palestine 2003-12-03 98 6 63
A N A Y A
A/RES/58/23 GA The Syrian Golan 2003-12-03 104 5 61
Y N A Y A
A/RES/58/7 GA Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo im… 2003-11-04 179 3 2
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/ES-10/13 GA Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of th… 2003-10-21 144 4 12
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/ES-10/12 GA Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of th… 2003-09-19 133 4 15
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/57/325 GA Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution… 2003-06-18 135 2 0
Y N Y Y Y