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/53/80
The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/78[D]
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77W
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 · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77Q
Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77P
Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77J
Observance of environmental norms in drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77Y
Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world : the need for a new agenda : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77X
Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77V
Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77S
Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77E
Small arms : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/73
Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77L
Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77H
Regional disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/77F
Reducing nuclear danger : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-04
A/RES/53/68
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/54
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 Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/49
Offers by Member States of grants and scholarships for higher education, including vocational training, for Palestine refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/61
Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/56
Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/51
Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/57
The occupied Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/55
Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/50
Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/48
Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/46
Assistance to Palestine refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/62
Implementation of the Declaration on 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 · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/52
University of Jerusalem "Al-Quds" for Palestine refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/69
Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/60
Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/53
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 · 1998-12-03
A/RES/53/39
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-02
A/RES/53/38
The situation in the Middle East : the Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-02
A/RES/53/42
Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-02
A/RES/53/41
Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-02
A/RES/53/40
Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-02
A/RES/53/37
Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-12-02
A/RES/53/34
Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-11-25
A/RES/53/32
Oceans and the law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-11-24
A/RES/53/21
Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1998-11-02
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