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/54/54I
Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/42
Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/55D
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/54G
Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world:#the need for a new agenda : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/54A
Preservation of and compliance with the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile System : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/39
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian people : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/54M
Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/54L
Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/37
Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/54K
Reducing nuclear danger : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/54D
Nuclear disarmament with a view to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/63
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/41
Special information programme of the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/40
Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/54B
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 · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/53
Prevention of an arms race in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-12-01
A/RES/54/31
Oceans and the law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-11-24
A/RES/54/35
Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-11-24
A/RES/54/26
Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-11-15
A/RES/54/21
Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-11-09
A/RES/53/227
Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-06-08
A/RES/ES-10/6
Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1999-02-09
A/RES/53/196
Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-15
A/RES/53/164
Situation of human rights in Kosovo : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-09
A/RES/53/141
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures: resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-09
A/RES/53/157
Situation of human rights in Iraq : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-09
A/RES/53/136
The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-09
A/RES/53/158
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-09
A/RES/53/143
Respect for the right to universal freedom of travel and the vital importance of family reunification : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-09
A/RES/53/135
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 · 1998-12-09
A/RES/53/163
Situation of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-09
A/RES/53/155
Right to development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-09
A/RES/53/85
Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-07
A/RES/53/77Z
Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77N
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 · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/75
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 · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/71
Maintenance of international security : prevention of the violent disintegration of States : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77U
Nuclear disarmament with a view to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77G
Nuclear testing : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/76
Prevention of an arms race in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
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