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 51–94 of 94.

Resolution Title Date Yes No Abstain
RUS
USA
GBR
CHN
FRA
31/37 GA United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon 1976-11-12 83 10 77
A N A Y A
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 157 7 10
Y N Y Y Y
31/125 GA International Year for Disabled Persons 1976-12-13 155 7 12
Y N Y Y Y
32/95 GA Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1977-11-28 153 8 10
Y N Y Y Y
32/99 GA Assistance to Cape Verde 1977-12-13 93 8 65
Y N N Y N
40/230 GA Situa- tion of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Sal- vador 1985-12-13 172 3 2
Y N N Y A
A/RES/72/93 GA Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to … 2017-12-07 118 2 54
A N A Y A
A/RES/72/82 GA Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestin… 2017-12-07 162 6 7
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/72/83 GA Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues : resolution / adop… 2017-12-07 159 7 9
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/72/85 GA Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of … 2017-12-07 157 7 10
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/72/84 GA Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affect… 2017-12-07 83 10 77
A N A Y A
A/RES/72/81 GA Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostili… 2017-12-07 158 7 10
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/72/92 GA Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peopl… 2017-12-07 173 2 2
Y N A Y A
A/RES/72/110 GA Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted… 2017-12-07 172 3 2
Y N N Y A
A/RES/72/91 GA Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Art… 2017-12-07 173 2 2
Y N A Y A
A/RES/72/87 GA Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian peopl… 2017-12-07 153 8 10
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/72/102 GA Question of Guam : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2017-12-07 93 8 65
Y N N Y N
A/RES/72/111 GA Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to … 2017-12-07 128 7 40
Y N N Y A
A/RES/72/72 GA Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the I… 2017-12-05 126 1 3
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/72/48 GA Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proli… 2017-12-04 130 4 51
Y N N Y A
A/RES/72/50 GA United action with renewed determination towards the total eliminatio… 2017-12-04 156 4 24
N Y Y N Y
A/RES/72/59 GA Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolut… 2017-12-04 123 50 10
A N N Y N
A/RES/72/43 GA Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Developmen… 2017-12-04 159 7 14
N Y Y N Y
A/RES/72/23 GA Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapon… 2017-12-04 180 3 0
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/72/58 GA Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justi… 2017-12-04 131 31 18
N N N Y N
A/RES/72/67 GA The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / a… 2017-12-04 157 5 20
Y N A Y A
A/RES/72/45 GA Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resoluti… 2017-12-04 149 5 29
N N N Y N
A/RES/72/21 GA Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Pe… 2017-12-04 132 3 46
Y N N Y N
A/RES/72/38 GA Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2017-12-04 119 41 20
N N N Y N
A/RES/72/54 GA Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions : resolution / … 2017-12-04 142 2 36
N A Y A Y
A/RES/72/27 GA No first placement of weapons in outer space : resolution / adopted b… 2017-12-04 131 4 48
Y N A Y A
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 131 4 48
Y N — Y A
31/37 GA United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon 1976-11-12 123 50 10
A N N Y N
47/147 GA Situation of human rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia 1992-12-18 142 2 36
N A Y A Y
36/170 GA Situa- tion of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Sal- vador 1981-12-16 130 4 51
Y N N Y A
A/RES/72/12 GA Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Dep… 2017-11-30 155 8 8
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/72/16 GA The Syrian Golan 2017-11-30 105 6 58
Y N N Y A
A/RES/72/11 GA Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat 2017-11-30 100 10 59
A N A Y A
A/RES/72/15 GA Jerusalem 2017-11-30 151 6 9
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/72/14 GA Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine 2017-11-30 157 7 8
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/72/13 GA Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinia… 2017-11-30 103 10 57
A N A Y A
72/4 GA Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo im… 2017-11-01 191 2 0
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/71/307 GA Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution… 2017-06-30 137 3 0
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/71/290 GA Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Ge… 2017-06-01 80 14 61
N Y Y A Y