UN Votes

United Kingdom

Permanent Security Council member
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5,694

GA votes

2,663 yes · 1,419 no · 1,560 abstain

2,815

SC votes

2,673 yes · 1 no · 60 abstain

32

Vetoes cast

P5 alignment

How often United Kingdom 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 America60.4%72.5%
France86.0%90.0%
Russian Federation54.6%70.8%
China40.5%58.0%
USA — 25.0%FRA — 35.6%RUS — 22.6%CHN — 16.8%

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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USAFRARUSCHN

A/RES/34/223B

Final income estimates for the biennium 1978-1979 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-20

GAYes

A/RES/34/223A

Final budget appropriations for the biennium 1978-1979 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-20

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/219[I]

Personnel questions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-20

GANo

A/RES/34/216

International monetary reform : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-19

GANo

A/RES/34/209

United Nations Special Fund for the Land-locked Developing Countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-19

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/199

Multilateral trade negotiations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-19

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/198

Specific action related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-19

GAYes

A/RES/34/211

Proposals for the new international development strategy : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-19

GANo

A/RES/34/197

Effects of the world inflationary phenomenon on the development process : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-19

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/180

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-18

GAYes

A/RES/34/184

Plan of Action to Combat Desertification : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-18

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/192

Question of Southern Rhodesia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-18

GANo

A/RES/34/176

United Nations Trust Fund for Chile : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/93R

Programme of work of the Special Committee against Apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/145

Measures to prevent international terrorism which endangers or takes innocent human lives or jeopardizes fundamental freedoms, and study of the underlying causes of those forms of terrorism and acts of violence which lie in misery, frustration, grievance and despair and which cause some people to sacrifice human lives, including their own, in an attempt to effect radical changes : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/9D

Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAYes

A/RES/34/7D

Financing of the United Nations Emergency Force and the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAYes

A/RES/34/172

Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/166

Review of the rates of reimbursement to the Governments of troop-contributed States : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAYes

A/RES/34/160

Provisional agenda for the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/158

World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/147

Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/179

Human rights in Chile : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAYes

A/RES/34/150

Consolidation and progressive development of the principles and norms of international economic law relating in particular to the legal aspects of the international economic order : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GANo

A/RES/34/9E

Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAYes

A/RES/34/9C

Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAYes

A/RES/34/9B

Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-17

GAYes

A/RES/34/113

Living conditions of the Palestinian people : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/136

Permanent sovereignty over national resources in the occupied Arab territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/103

Inadmissability of the policy of hegemonism in international relations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/101

Non-interference in the internal affairs of States : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-14

GANo

A/RES/34/100

Implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/133

Assistance to the Palestinian people : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/95

Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-13

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/94

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-13

GANo

A/RES/34/92C

Action by intergovermental and non-governmental organizations with respect to Namibia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/92A

Programme of work of the United Nations Council for Namibia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/93J

Dissemination of information on apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/34/93D

Arms embargo against South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-12

GANo

A/RES/34/93L

Role of mass media in international action against apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1979-12-12

GAAbstain

Vetoes cast by United Kingdom

S/21048 — Panama

1989-12-23

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

1989-01-11

S/19585 — South Africa

1988-03-08

S/18785 — Namibia

1987-04-09

S/18705 — South Africa

1987-02-20

S/18163 — Complaint by Angola against South Africa

1986-06-18

S/18087/Rev. 1 — Southern Africa

1986-05-23

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

1986-04-21

S/17633 — Namibia

1985-11-15

S/17354/Rev.1 — South Africa

1985-07-26

S/15156/Rev. 2 — Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

1982-06-04

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/11713 — Namibia

1975-06-06

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