UN Votes

France

Permanent Security Council member
Full country dossier at GA Speeches →

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.

5%53%100%1946195019651980199520102025
USARUSGBRCHN

S/RES/655(1990)

Security Council resolution 655 (1990) [on renewal of the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force] · 1990-05-31

SCYes

S/RES/654(1990)

Security Council resolution 654 (1990) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Observer Group in Central America] · 1990-05-04

SCYes

S/RES/653(1990)

Security Council resolution 653 (1990) [on addition of new tasks to the mandate of the United Nations Observer Group in Central America] · 1990-04-20

SCYes

S/RES/652(1990)

Security Council resolution 652 (1990) [on admission of Namibia to membership in the United Nations] · 1990-04-17

SCYes

S/RES/651(1990)

Security Council resolution 651 (1990) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group] · 1990-03-29

SCYes

S/RES/650(1990)

Security Council resolution 650 (1990) [on the Central American peace process] · 1990-03-27

SCYes

S/RES/649(1990)

Security Council resolution 649 (1990) [on the Secretary-General's mission of good offices concerning Cyprus] · 1990-03-12

SCYes

S/RES/648(1990)

Security Council resolution 648 (1990) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon] · 1990-01-31

SCYes

S/RES/647(1990)

Security Council resolution 647 (1990) [on temporary deployment in Afghanistan and Pakistan of military officers from United Nations operations] · 1990-01-11

SCYes

S/21048

Draft resolution S/21048 — vetoed by FRA, USA, GBR · 1989-12-23

SCVetoedNo

S/RES/646(1989)

Security Council resolution 646 (1989) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus] · 1989-12-14

SCYes

S/RES/645(1989)

Security Council resolution 645 (1989) [on renewal of the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force] · 1989-11-29

SCYes

S/RES/644(1989)

Security Council resolution 644 (1989) [on establishment of the UN Observer Group in Central America] · 1989-11-07

SCYes

S/RES/643(1989)

Security Council resolution 643 (1989) [on the holding of free and fair elections in Namibia] · 1989-10-31

SCYes

S/RES/642(1989)

Security Council resolution 642 (1989) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group] · 1989-09-29

SCYes

S/RES/641(1989)

Security Council resolution 641 (1989) [on deportation of Palestinian civilians by Israel from the occupied territories] · 1989-08-30

SCYes

S/RES/640(1989)

Security Council resolution 640 (1989) [on the electoral process in Namibia] · 1989-08-29

SCYes

S/RES/638(1989)

Security Council resolution 638 (1989) [on incidents of hostage-taking and abduction] · 1989-07-31

SCYes

S/RES/639(1989)

Security Council resolution 639 (1989) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon] · 1989-07-31

SCYes

S/RES/637(1989)

Security Council resolution 637 (1989) [on the Guatemala Agreement of 1987] · 1989-07-27

SCYes

S/RES/636(1989)

Security Council resolution 636 (1989) [on deportation of 8 Palestinian civilians by Israel from the occupied territories] · 1989-07-06

SCYes

S/RES/635(1989)

Security Council resolution 635 (1989) [on marking of plastic or sheet explosives for the purpose of detection] · 1989-06-14

SCYes

S/RES/634(1989)

Security Council resolution 634 (1989) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus] · 1989-06-09

SCYes

S/RES/633(1989)

Security Council resolution 633 (1989) [on renewal of the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force] · 1989-05-30

SCYes

S/RES/632(1989)

Security Council resolution 632 (1989) [on implementation of the UN Plan for the Independence of Namibia] · 1989-02-16

SCYes

S/RES/631(1989)

Security Council resolution 631 (1989) [on renewal of the mandate of the UN Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group] · 1989-02-08

SCYes

S/RES/630(1989)

Security Council resolution 630 (1989) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon] · 1989-01-30

SCYes

S/RES/629(1989)

Security Council resolution 629 (1989) [on settlement of the Namibia question] · 1989-01-16

SCYes

S/RES/628(1989)

Security Council resolution 628 (1989) [on signature of the tripartite agreement between Angola, Cuba and South Africa, and of the bilateral agreement between Angola and Cuba] · 1989-01-16

SCYes

S/20378

Draft resolution S/20378 — vetoed by FRA, USA, GBR · 1989-01-11

SCVetoedNo

S/RES/627(1989)

Security Council resolution 627 (1989) [on election of members of the International Court of Justice] · 1989-01-09

SCYes

S/RES/626(1988)

Security Council resolution 626 (1988) [on establishment of the UN Angola Verification Mission] · 1988-12-20

SCYes

S/RES/625(1988)

Security Council resolution 625 (1988) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus] · 1988-12-15

SCYes

S/RES/624(1988)

Security Council resolution 624 (1988) [on renewal of the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force] · 1988-11-30

SCYes

S/RES/623(1988)

Security Council resolution 623 (1988) [on death sentence imposed on an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa] · 1988-11-23

SCYes

S/RES/622(1988)

Security Council resolution 622 (1988) [on temporary deployment in Afghanistan and Pakistan of military officers from United Nations operations] · 1988-10-31

SCYes

S/RES/621(1988)

Security Council resolution 621 (1988) [on referendum for self-determination of the people of Western Sahara] · 1988-09-20

SCYes

S/RES/620(1988)

Security Council resolution 620 (1988) [on chemical weapons use in the conflict between Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran] · 1988-08-26

SCYes

S/RES/619(1988)

Security Council resolution 619 (1988) [on establishment of the UN Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group] · 1988-08-09

SCYes

S/RES/618(1988)

Security Council resolution 618 (1988) [on abduction of Lieutenant-Colonel William Richard Higgins of the UN Truce Supervision Organization] · 1988-07-29

SCYes

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