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/71/50
The Arms Trade Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/33
The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/46
Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/31
Prevention of an arms race in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/86
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/59
Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/58
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 · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/47
Humanitarian Pledge for the Prohibition and Elimination of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/63
Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/32
No first placement of weapons in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/36
Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/45
Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/70
Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/75
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/30
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 · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/83
The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/51
Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/71
Follow-up to the 2013 High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/37
Reducing nuclear danger : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/67
Nuclear disarmament verification : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/44
Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/53
Decreasing the operational readiness of nuclear weapons systems : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05
A/RES/71/24
The Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30
A/RES/71/25
Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30
A/RES/71/20
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30
A/RES/71/21
Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30
A/RES/71/23
Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30
A/RES/71/22
Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30
A/RES/71/11
Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-21
A/RES/71/5
Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-10-26
A/RES/70/280
Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-06-17
A/RES/70/265
Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-06-07
A/RES/70/231
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-23
A/RES/70/235
Oceans and the law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-23
A/RES/70/234
Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-23
A/RES/70/185
Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-22
A/RES/70/194
Oil slick on Lebanese shores : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-22
A/RES/70/225
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 · 2015-12-22
A/RES/70/198
Agricultural technology for sustainable development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-22
A/RES/70/142
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 · 2015-12-17
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