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 1–47 of 47.

Resolution Title Date Yes No Abstain
RUS
USA
GBR
CHN
FRA
32/95 GA Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1977-11-28 162 9 5
Y N Y Y Y
32/95 GA Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1977-11-28 168 6 3
Y N Y Y Y
32/97 GA Assistance to Botswana 1977-12-13 172 3 2
Y N N Y A
A/RES/64/94 GA Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian peopl… 2009-12-10 162 9 5
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/93 GA Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including … 2009-12-10 167 7 3
Y N Y Y Y
31/125 GA International Year for Disabled Persons 1976-12-13 167 6 4
Y N Y Y Y
31/37 GA United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon 1976-11-12 92 9 74
A N A Y A
A/RES/64/106 GA Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to … 2009-12-10 172 3 2
Y N N Y A
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 168 6 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/105 GA Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted… 2009-12-10 173 3 1
Y N N Y A
31/125 GA International Year for Disabled Persons 1976-12-13 167 7 3
Y N Y Y Y
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 166 7 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/98 GA Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peopl… 2009-12-10 173 2 2
Y N A Y A
A/RES/64/88 GA Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostili… 2009-12-10 166 7 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/89 GA Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestin… 2009-12-10 167 6 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/90 GA Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues : resolution / adop… 2009-12-10 168 6 3
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/91 GA Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israel Practices Affecti… 2009-12-10 92 9 74
A N A Y A
A/RES/64/92 GA Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of … 2009-12-10 168 6 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/66 GA The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / a… 2009-12-02 167 6 6
Y N Y Y Y
57/229 GA Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Conven… 2002-12-18 124 31 21
N N N Y N
A/RES/64/16 GA Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinia… 2009-12-02 109 8 55
A N A Y A
A/64/382 GA Objective information on military matters, including transparency of … 2009-12-02 128 3 45
Y N N Y N
A/RES/64/17 GA Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat 2009-12-02 112 9 54
A N A Y A
32/97 GA Assistance to Botswana 1977-12-13 122 5 49
Y N N Y A
A/RES/64/18 GA Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Dep… 2009-12-02 162 8 5
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/19 GA Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine 2009-12-02 164 7 4
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/20 GA Jerusalem 2009-12-02 163 7 5
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/21 GA The Syrian Golan 2009-12-02 116 7 51
Y N A Y A
56/170 GA Protection of migrants 2001-12-19 111 45 19
A N N Y N
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 116 50 12
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/23 GA Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Pe… 2009-12-02 128 3 45
Y N N Y N
A/RES/64/34 GA Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proli… 2009-12-02 122 5 49
Y N N Y A
A/RES/64/44 GA Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resoluti… 2009-12-02 170 3 6
Y N N Y N
A/RES/64/53 GA Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2009-12-02 111 45 19
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/55 GA Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justi… 2009-12-02 124 31 21
N N N Y N
A/RES/64/57 GA Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world : accelerating the implementation… 2009-12-02 169 5 5
Y N A Y N
A/RES/64/59 GA Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolut… 2009-12-02 116 50 12
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/188 GA International trade and development : resolution / adopted by the Gen… 2009-11-16 122 47 8
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/195 GA Oil slick on Lebanese shores : resolution / adopted by the General As… 2009-11-16 164 8 7
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/189 GA Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coe… 2009-11-16 124 3 51
Y N A Y A
32/132 GA Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1977-11-28 124 3 51
Y N A Y A
31/37 GA United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon 1976-11-12 122 47 8
A N N Y N
A/RES/64/185 GA Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Pales… 2009-11-16 165 8 7
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/64/10 GA Follow-up to the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on… 2009-11-05 114 18 44
A N A Y A
A/RES/63/307 GA Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Ge… 2009-09-09 48 19 78
N Y Y A Y
A/RES/63/298 GA Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution… 2009-06-30 134 2 0
Y N Y Y Y
A/RES/ES-10/18 GA General Assembly resolution supporting the immediate ceasefire accord… 2009-01-16 142 4 8
Y N Y Y Y