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/35/152J

Report of the Committee on Disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/35/152G

Paragraph 125 of the Final Document : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-12

GANo

A/RES/35/124

International co-operation to avert new flows of refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAYes

A/RES/35/122C

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/136

World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/123

Question of the Malagasy Islands of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GANo

A/RES/35/122D

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAYes

A/RES/35/122E

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/130B

Human rights and scientific and technological developments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAYes

A/RES/35/119

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GANo

A/RES/35/130A

Human rights and scientific and technological developments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/120

Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/122F

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/122B

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAYes

A/RES/35/122A

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GAYes

A/RES/35/118

Plan of the Action for the full implemenation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-11

GANo

S/RES/482(1980)

Security Council resolution 482 (1980) [on extension of the stationing in Cyprus of the UN Peace-keeping Force] · 1980-12-11

SCYes

A/RES/35/115B

Financing the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-10

GAYes

A/RES/35/113

Financial emergency of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-10

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/115A

Financing the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-10

GAYes

A/RES/35/75

Living conditions of the Palestinian people : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-05

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/58

Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked development countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/35/60

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-05

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/57

Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-05

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/50

Report of the Special Committee on Enhancing the Effectivness of the Principle of Non-Use of Force in International Relations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-04

GANo

A/RES/35/44

Review of the rates of reinbursement on the Governments of troop-contributing states : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-01

GAYes

A/RES/35/45B

Financing of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-01

GAYes

A/RES/35/45A

Financing of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-12-01

GAYes

A/RES/35/43

Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-11-28

GANo

S/RES/481(1980)

Security Council resolution 481 (1980) [on renewal of the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force] · 1980-11-26

SCYes

A/RES/35/39

Status of the International Convention on the Supression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-11-25

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/37

The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-11-20

GAYes

S/RES/480(1980)

Security Council resolution 480 (1980) [on election of members of the International Court of Justice] · 1980-11-12

SCYes

A/RES/35/28

Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Namibia and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in Southern Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-11-11

GANo

A/RES/35/29

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-11-11

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/20

Question of Belize : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-11-11

GAYes

A/RES/35/27

Question of East Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-11-11

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/26

Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73e of the Charter of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-11-11

GAAbstain

A/RES/35/13F

Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-11-03

GAYes

A/RES/35/13E

Population and refugees displaced since 1967 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1980-11-03

GAAbstain

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