UN Votes

France

Permanent Security Council member
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5,694

GA votes

2,681 yes · 1,143 no · 1,800 abstain

2,815

SC votes

2,673 yes · 1 no · 59 abstain

18

Vetoes cast

P5 alignment

How often France voted the same way as each permanent Security Council member, of the resolutions both cast a yes/no/abstain vote on.

Permanent memberGA onlyGA + SC
United States of America51.8%66.3%
Russian Federation56.2%71.6%
United Kingdom86.0%90.0%
China42.2%59.2%
USA — 21.9%RUS — 23.8%GBR — 36.4%CHN — 17.9%

The pie chart is based on the “GA only” column, showing each member’s share of the combined total across all shown members (it does not sum those percentages to 100% on its own) — see the table for the actual agreement rate with each. The “GA + SC” column blends in Security Council votes, which are adopted almost unanimously and so tend to pull every country’s number up.

P5 alignment over time

Same GA-only metric, by year. A member’s line starts wherever it first has enough shared votes in a year to be meaningful (at least 5) — for Russia, that’s never before 1991, since the USSR voted under a separate historical record.

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USARUSGBRCHN

A/RES/52/49

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAAbstain

A/RES/52/39C

Convention on theh Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GANo

A/RES/52/38M

Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/38L

Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GANo

A/RES/52/37

Prevention of an arms race in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAAbstain

A/RES/52/50

Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAAbstain

A/RES/52/38R

Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/52

Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/38A

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/35

Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/54

The situation in the Middle East : the Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAAbstain

A/RES/52/53

Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/44

Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GANo

A/RES/52/38O

Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GANo

A/RES/52/36

Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAAbstain

A/RES/52/33

The role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GANo

A/RES/52/40C

Role of the UN in disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GANo

A/RES/52/38J

Small arms : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/41

The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/38H

Contributions towards banning anti-personnel landmines : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/38B

Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GANo

A/RES/52/51

Special information programme on the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/38Q

Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/38N

The nuclear-weapon-free southern hemishpere and adjacent areas : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GANo

A/RES/52/38K

Nuclear disarmament with a view to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAYes

A/RES/52/38E

Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09

GAAbstain

A/RES/52/26

Oceans and the law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-26

GAYes

A/RES/52/24

Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-25

GAAbstain

A/RES/52/22

Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-25

GAYes

A/RES/52/14

Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-20

GAYes

A/RES/ES-10/4

Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-13

GAYes

A/RES/52/11

Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-12

GAYes

A/RES/52/10

Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-05

GAYes

A/RES/ES-10/3

Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-07-15

GAYes

A/RES/51/233

Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-06-13

GAYes

A/RES/51/229

Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-05-21

GAAbstain

A/RES/ES-10/2

Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-04-25

GAYes

A/RES/51/223

Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, in particular in occupied East Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-03-13

GAYes

A/RES/51/217

United Nations pension system : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1996-12-18

GAYes

A/RES/51/193

Report of the Security Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1996-12-17

GANo

Vetoes cast by France

S/21048 — Panama

1989-12-23

S/20378 — 1989 Letters from Libya and Bahrain (Libya)

1989-01-11

S/18016/Rev. 1 — 1986 Letters from various Member States (Libya)

1986-04-21

S/14462 — Namibia

1981-04-30

S/14461 — Namibia

1981-04-30

S/14460/Rev.1 — Namibia

1981-04-30

S/14459 — Namibia

1981-04-30

S/12312/Rev. 1 — South Africa

1977-10-31

S/12311/Rev. 1 — South Africa

1977-10-31

S/12310/Rev. 1 — South Africa

1977-10-31

S/12211 — Namibia

1976-10-19

S/11967 — Comoros

1976-02-06

S/11713 — Namibia

1975-06-06

S/11543 — United Nations and South Africa

1974-10-30

S/3713/Rev. 1, as amended — 1956 Letter from US (Suez Canal)

1956-10-30

S/3710 as modified by the insertion of a new paragraph 1 — 1956 Letter from US (Suez Canal)

1956-10-30

29 (1947); 30 (1947); 31 (1947) — Indonesian question

1947-08-25

7 (1946) — Spanish question

1946-06-26