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.

5%53%100%1946195019651980199520102025
USARUSGBRCHN

A/RES/3195(XXVIII)[C]

Financing of appropriations for the year 1974 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-18

GAYes

A/RES/3184(XXVIII)[A]

General and complete disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-18

GAAbstain

A/RES/3184(XXVIII)[C]

General and complete disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-18

GAAbstain

A/RES/3175(XXVIII)

Permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the occupied Arab territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/3167(XXVIII)

United Nations Revolving Fund for Natural Resources Exploration : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-17

GAYes

A/RES/3171(XXVIII)

Permanent sovereignty over natural resources : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/3169(XXVIII)

Special measures related to the particular needs of the landlocked developing countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/3172(XXVIII)

Holding of a special session of the Feneral Assembly devoted to development and international economic co-operation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-17

GAYes

S/RES/344(1973)

Security Council resolution 344 (1973) [on a peace conference on the Middle East] · 1973-12-15

SCAbstain

A/RES/3163(XXVIII)

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GANo

A/RES/3162(XXVIII)

Question of Spanish Sahara : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3157(XXVIII)

Question of Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands and United States Virgin Islands : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3136(XXVIII)

Creation of the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAYes

A/RES/3154(XXVIII)[A]

Effects of atomic radiation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3149(XXVIII)

Human rights and scientific and technological developments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAYes

A/RES/3154(XXVIII)[C]

Effects of atomic radiation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3151(XXVIII)[A]

Trade union action against apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3165(XXVIII)

International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3164(XXVIII)

Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3154(XXVIII)[B]

Effects of atomic radiation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAYes

A/RES/3151(XXVIII)[F]

United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAYes

A/RES/3151(XXVIII)[E]

Action by intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3160(XXVIII)

Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3156(XXVIII)

Question of American Samoa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Guam, New Hebrides, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Seychelles and Solomon islands : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GANo

A/RES/3151(XXVIII)[D]

Intensification and co-ordination of United Nations action against apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3161(XXVIII)

Question of the Comoro Archipelago : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GANon-voting

A/RES/3151(XXVIII)[C]

Dissemination of information on apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAYes

A/RES/3159(XXVIII)

Question of Brunei : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3158(XXVIII)

Question of the Seychelles : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GANo

A/RES/3155(XXVIII)

Question of Niue : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAYes

A/RES/3151(XXVIII)[G]

Situation in South Africa resulting from the policies of apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3151(XXVIII)[B]

Programme of work of the Special Committee on Apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/3150(XXVIII)

Use of scientific and technological developments in the interests of peace and social development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAYes

A/RES/3148(XXVIII)

Preservation and further development of cultural values : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-14

GAYes

S/RES/343(1973)

Security Council resolution 343 (1973) [on extension of the stationing in Cyprus of the UN Peace-keeping Force · 1973-12-14

SCYes

A/RES/3129(XXVIII)

Co-operation in the field of the environment concerning natural resources shared by two or more States : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-13

GAAbstain

A/RES/3122(XXVIII)

United Nations Capital Development Fund : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-13

GAAbstain

A/RES/3130(XXVIII)

Criteria governing multilateral financing of housing and human settlements : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-13

GAAbstain

A/RES/3117(XXVIII)

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 Southern Rhodesia and Namibia and Territories under Portuguese domination 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 · 1973-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/3113(XXVIII)

Question of Territories under Portuguese administration : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1973-12-12

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