United Kingdom
Permanent Security Council member5,694
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 member | GA only | GA + SC |
|---|---|---|
| United States of America | 60.4% | 72.5% |
| France | 86.0% | 90.0% |
| Russian Federation | 54.6% | 70.8% |
| China | 40.5% | 58.0% |
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.
A/RES/71/247
Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-21
A/RES/71/189
Declaration on the Right to Peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/192
The right to development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/179
Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/181
A global call for concrete action for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/174
Report of the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/205
Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/184
The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/193
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/198
Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/204
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/187
Moratorium on the use of the death penalty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/182
Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self determination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/190
Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/203
Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/197
Globalization and its impact on the full enjoyment of all human rights : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-19
A/RES/71/130
The Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-09
A/RES/71/93
Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/121
Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/103
Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/104
Implementation of the Declaration of 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 · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/94
Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/99
The occupied Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/97
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/92
Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/91
Assistance to Palestine refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/98
Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/122
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/102
Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/95
Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/96
Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories : resoultion / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-06
A/RES/71/28
Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/54
Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/41
Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/61
Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/49
United action with renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/34
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 · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/55
Ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/69
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 · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/68
National legislation on transfer of arms, military equipment and dual use goods and technology : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
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