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 1951–2000 of 3867.

Resolution Title Date Yes No Abstain
RUS
USA
GBR
CHN
FRA
32/95 GA Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1977-11-28 160 6 3
Y N Y Y Y
40/230 GA Situa- tion of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Sal- vador 1985-12-13 113 45 20
A N N Y N
32/98 GA Assistance to Botswana 1977-11-28 177 1 2
Y N Y Y A
31/125 GA International Year for Disabled Persons 1976-12-13 159 6 3
Y N Y Y Y
32/97 GA Assistance to Botswana 1977-12-13 176 1 4
Y N A Y A
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 161 6 5
Y N Y Y Y
31/127 GA Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1976-12-01 122 8 50
Y N N Y N
A/RES/60/45 GA Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in th… 2005-12-08 177 1 0
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/102 GA Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestin… 2005-12-08 159 6 3
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/46 GA Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapon… 2005-12-08 180 1 1
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/48 GA Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Pe… 2005-12-08 132 3 46
Y N N Y N
A/RES/60/120 GA Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism : reso… 2005-12-08 133 3 36
Y N N Y A
A/RES/60/119 GA Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to … 2005-12-08 166 3 4
Y N N Y A
A/RES/60/118 GA Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted… 2005-12-08 167 3 2
Y N N Y A
A/RES/60/51 GA Role of science and technology in the context of international securi… 2005-12-08 110 53 17
A N N Y N
A/RES/60/54 GA Prevention of an arms race in outer space : resolution / adopted by t… 2005-12-08 180 2 0
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/111 GA Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peopl… 2005-12-08 169 1 3
Y N A Y A
A/RES/60/106 GA Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including … 2005-12-08 153 7 10
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/105 GA Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of … 2005-12-08 158 6 7
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/104 GA Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affect… 2005-12-08 86 10 74
A N A Y A
A/RES/60/103 GA Palestine Refugees' properties and their revenues : resolution / adop… 2005-12-08 160 6 3
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/56 GA Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world : accelerating the implementation… 2005-12-08 153 5 20
A N N Y N
A/RES/60/101 GA Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostili… 2005-12-08 161 6 5
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/95 GA Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty : resolution / adopted by the G… 2005-12-08 172 1 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/92 GA The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / a… 2005-12-08 164 5 5
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/58 GA Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : accelera… 2005-12-08 167 3 8
A N N Y N
A/RES/60/88 GA Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolut… 2005-12-08 111 49 13
A N N Y N
A/RES/60/76 GA Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justi… 2005-12-08 126 29 24
N N N Y N
A/RES/60/70 GA Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2005-12-08 113 45 20
A N N Y N
A/RES/60/68 GA Addressing the negative humanitarian and development impact of the il… 2005-12-08 177 1 0
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/66 GA Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activiti… 2005-12-08 178 1 1
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/65 GA Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapon… 2005-12-08 168 2 7
— N Y A Y
A/RES/60/61 GA Relationship between disarmament and development : resolution / adopt… 2005-12-08 177 1 2
Y N Y Y A
A/RES/60/60 GA Observance of environmental norms in the draftign and implementation … 2005-12-08 176 1 4
Y N A Y A
A/RES/60/39 GA Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine 2005-12-01 156 6 9
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/36 GA Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinia… 2005-12-01 106 8 59
A N A Y A
A/RES/60/37 GA Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat 2005-12-01 105 8 59
A N A Y A
A/RES/60/38 GA Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Dep… 2005-12-01 160 7 6
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/40 GA The Syrian Golan 2005-12-01 106 6 62
Y N A Y A
A/RES/60/41 GA Jerusalem 2005-12-01 153 7 12
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/60/12 GA Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo im… 2005-11-08 182 4 1
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/59/307 GA Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution… 2005-06-22 126 2 1
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/59/280 GA United Nations declaration on human cloning : resolution / adopted by… 2005-03-08 84 34 37
— Y N N N
A/59/516/Add.1 GA United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning 2005-03-08 84 34 37
— Y N N N
A/RES/59/261 GA Rights of the child : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2004-12-23 166 2 1
Y N Y Y Y
31/125 GA International Year for Disabled Persons 1976-12-13 125 10 30
A N N Y A
A/RES/59/260 GA Future Operation of the International Research and Training Institute… 2004-12-23 125 10 30
A N N Y A
A/RES/59/251 GA Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Pales… 2004-12-22 156 5 11
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/59/221 GA International trade and development : resolution / adopted by the Gen… 2004-12-22 166 2 6
Y N Y Y Y
39/192 GA Question of the United States Virgin Islands 1984-09-14 127 50 8
Y N N Y N