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/70/27

No first placement of weapons in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAAbstain

A/RES/70/31

Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAAbstain

A/RES/70/51

Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world : accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GANo

A/RES/70/56

Follow-up to the 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 · 2015-12-07

GANo

A/RES/70/45

Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GANo

A/RES/70/34

Follow-up to the 2013 High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GANo

A/RES/70/70

The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAAbstain

A/RES/70/58

The Arms Trade Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAYes

A/RES/70/22

Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GANo

A/RES/70/48

Humanitarian pledge for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GANo

A/RES/70/41

Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAYes

A/RES/70/26

Prevention of an arms race in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAYes

A/RES/70/38

Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995, 2000 and 2010 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GANo

A/RES/70/47

Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GANo

A/RES/70/57

Universal Declaration on the Achievement of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GANo

A/RES/70/40

United action with renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAAbstain

A/RES/70/28

2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and its Preparatory Committee : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAYes

A/RES/70/44

Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAYes

A/RES/70/62

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GANo

A/RES/70/25

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 · 2015-12-07

GAAbstain

A/RES/70/54

Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAYes

A/RES/70/55

Implementation of the 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 · 2015-12-07

GAYes

A/RES/70/39

Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07

GAYes

A/RES/70/12

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24

GAAbstain

A/RES/70/13

Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24

GAAbstain

A/RES/70/14

Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24

GAYes

A/RES/70/17

The Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24

GAAbstain

A/RES/70/15

Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24

GAYes

A/RES/70/16

Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24

GAYes

S/RES/2249(2015)

Security Council resolution 2249 (2015) [on terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also known as Da'esh] · 2015-11-20

SCYes

A/RES/70/10

Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-17

GAYes

S/RES/2248(2015)

Security Council resolution 2248 (2015) [on the situation in Burundi] · 2015-11-12

SCYes

S/RES/2247(2015)

Security Council resolution 2247 (2015) [on renewal of the authorization of the European Union-led Multinational Stabilization Force (EUFOR ALTHEA) in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a further period of 12 months] · 2015-11-10

SCYes

S/RES/2246(2015)

Security Council resolution 2246 (2015) [on piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia] · 2015-11-10

SCYes

S/RES/2245(2015)

Security Council resolution 2245 (2015) [on expansion of the mission of the UN Support Office to AMISOM (UNSOA) and the change of its name to UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS)] · 2015-11-09

SCYes

A/RES/70/5

Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-10-27

GAYes

S/RES/2244(2015)

Security Council resolution 2244 (2015) [on extension of the mandate of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea until 15 Dec. 2016] · 2015-10-23

SCYes

S/RES/2243(2015)

Security Council resolution 2243 (2015) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) until 15 Oct. 2016] · 2015-10-14

SCYes

S/RES/2242(2015)

Security Council resolution 2242 (2015) [on women and peace and security] · 2015-10-13

SCYes

S/RES/2240(2015)

Security Council resolution 2240 (2015) [on migrant smuggling and human trafficking into, through and from the Libyan territory and off the coast of Libya] · 2015-10-09

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