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/32/105[K]

Situation in South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/105[D]

Relations between Israel and South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-14

GANo

A/RES/32/105[J]

Assistance to national liberation movement of South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-14

GANo

A/RES/32/105[I]

Programme of work of the Special Committee on Apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/105[M]

International Declaration against Apartheid in Sports : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-14

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/90[C]

Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAYes

A/RES/32/90[A]

Assistance to Palestine refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAYes

A/RES/32/91[A]

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rightsof the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAYes

A/RES/32/90[E]

Population and refugees displaced since 1967 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAYes

A/RES/32/91[B]

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/91[C]

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/87[G]

General and complete disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/81

Implementation of the Declaration on the Denuclearization of Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/83

Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/87[B]

General and complete disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/86

Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/84[A]

Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/76

Implementation of General Assembly resolution 3473 (XXX) concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol I of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/87[F]

General and complete disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/78

Urgent need for cessation of nuclear and thermonuclear tests and conclusion of a treaty designed to achieve a comprehensive test ban; conclusion of a treaty on the complete and general prohibition of nuclear-weapons tests : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/80

Effective measures to implement the purposes and objectives of the Disarmament Decade : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/87[D]

General and complete disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/85

Reduction of military budgets : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/84[B]

Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/82

Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/79

Implementation of General Assembly resolution 31/67 concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/42

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-07

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/4[B-C]

Financing of the United Nations Emergency Force and of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/32/40[A]

Question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-02

GANo

A/RES/32/40[B]

Question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-02

GANo

A/RES/32/39

Scale of assessment for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/32/27

Question of Brunei : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GANon-voting

A/RES/32/32

Question of Belize : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GAYes

A/RES/32/36

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by their specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/34

Question of East Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/33

Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/35

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 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 · 1977-11-28

GANo

A/RES/32/20

The situation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-25

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/15

Question of Cyprus : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-09

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/13

Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-07

GAYes

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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