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 51–74 of 74.

Resolution Title Date Yes No Abstain
RUS
USA
GBR
CHN
FRA
A/RES/70/31 GA Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proli… 2015-12-07 129 4 50
Y N N Y A
A/RES/70/45 GA Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resoluti… 2015-12-07 178 4 1
N N N Y N
A/RES/70/56 GA Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justi… 2015-12-07 137 24 25
N N N Y N
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 129 4 46
Y N A Y A
A/RES/70/62 GA Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolut… 2015-12-07 130 48 8
A N N Y N
A/RES/70/70 GA The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / a… 2015-12-07 157 5 20
Y N A Y A
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 130 48 8
A N N Y N
59/94 GA Bilateral strategic nuclear arms reductions and the new strategic fra… 2004-12-03 137 24 25
N N N Y N
A/RES/70/22 GA Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Pe… 2015-12-07 128 3 45
Y N N Y N
57/229 GA Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Conven… 2002-12-18 139 2 40
N A Y A Y
32/98 GA Assistance to Botswana 1977-11-28 140 26 17
N N N Y N
A/RES/70/14 GA Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Dep… 2015-11-24 155 7 7
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/70/17 GA The Syrian Golan 2015-11-24 105 6 56
Y N A Y A
A/RES/70/16 GA Jerusalem 2015-11-24 153 7 8
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/70/13 GA Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat 2015-11-24 99 8 59
A N A Y A
71/9 GA The situation in Afghanistan 2016-11-17 155 7 7
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/70/12 GA Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinia… 2015-11-24 102 8 57
A N A Y A
A/RES/70/5 GA Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo im… 2015-10-26 191 2 0
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/70/34 GA Follow-up to the 2013 High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on N… 2015-10-16 140 26 17
N N N Y N
A/RES/69/326 GA Venue of annual sessions of the Executive Board of the United Nations… 2015-09-11 103 11 38
A N N Y N
A/RES/69/319 GA Basic Principles on Sovereign Debt Restructuring Processes 2015-09-10 136 6 41
Y N N Y A
A/RES/69/320 GA Raising the flags of non-member observer States at the United Nations 2015-09-10 119 8 45
Y N A Y Y
A/RES/69/302 GA Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution… 2015-06-25 89 3 47
Y N A Y A
A/RES/69/286 GA Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Ge… 2015-06-03 75 16 78
N Y Y A Y