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 51–76 of 76.

Resolution Title Date Yes No Abstain
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40/233 GA Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Salvador 1985-12-17 179 4 1
N N N Y N
A/RES/71/61 GA Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proli… 2016-12-05 132 4 50
Y N N Y A
A/RES/71/51 GA Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resoluti… 2016-12-05 179 4 1
N N N Y N
A/RES/71/69 GA Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Developmen… 2016-12-05 160 6 15
N Y Y N Y
A/RES/71/45 GA Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions : resolution / … 2016-12-05 141 2 39
N A Y A Y
A/RES/71/49 GA United action with renewed determination towards the total eliminatio… 2016-12-05 167 4 16
N Y A N A
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 130 4 48
Y N — Y A
31/125 GA International Year for Disabled Persons 1976-12-13 128 50 9
A N N Y N
XL GA Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on n… 2016-12-05 140 30 15
N N N Y N
57/229 GA Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Conven… 2002-12-18 136 25 22
N N N Y N
A/RES/71/32 GA No first placement of weapons in outer space : resolution / adopted b… 2016-12-05 130 4 48
Y N A Y A
A/RES/71/63 GA Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2016-12-05 122 44 17
N N N Y N
A/RES/71/53 GA Decreasing the operational readiness of nuclear weapons systems : res… 2016-12-05 175 4 5
N N N Y N
A/RES/71/83 GA The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / a… 2016-12-05 157 5 22
Y N A Y A
A/RES/71/58 GA Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justi… 2016-12-05 136 25 22
N N N Y N
A/RES/71/71 GA Follow-up to the 2013 High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on N… 2016-12-05 140 30 15
N N N Y N
39/192 GA Question of the United States Virgin Islands 1984-09-14 141 2 39
N A Y A Y
A/RES/71/75 GA Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolut… 2016-12-05 128 50 9
A N N Y N
A/RES/71/24 GA The Syrian Golan 2016-11-30 103 6 56
Y N A Y A
A/RES/71/20 GA Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinia… 2016-11-30 100 9 55
A N A Y A
A/RES/71/21 GA Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat 2016-11-30 98 9 57
A N A Y A
A/RES/71/22 GA Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Dep… 2016-11-30 153 7 7
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/71/25 GA Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2016-11-30 149 7 8
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/71/23 GA Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine 2016-11-30 153 7 7
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/70/280 GA Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution… 2016-06-17 155 3 0
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/70/265 GA Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Ge… 2016-06-07 76 15 64
N Y Y A Y