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/52/49
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/39C
Convention on theh Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38M
Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38L
Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/37
Prevention of an arms race in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/50
Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38R
Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/52
Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38A
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 · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/35
Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/54
The situation in the Middle East : the Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/53
Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/44
Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38O
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 · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/36
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 · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/33
The role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/40C
Role of the UN in disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38J
Small arms : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/41
The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38H
Contributions towards banning anti-personnel landmines : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38B
Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/51
Special information programme on the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38Q
Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38N
The nuclear-weapon-free southern hemishpere and adjacent areas : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38K
Nuclear disarmament with a view to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/38E
Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-12-09
A/RES/52/26
Oceans and the law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-26
A/RES/52/24
Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-25
A/RES/52/22
Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-25
A/RES/52/14
Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-20
A/RES/ES-10/4
Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-13
A/RES/52/11
Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-12
A/RES/52/10
Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-11-05
A/RES/ES-10/3
Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-07-15
A/RES/51/233
Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-06-13
A/RES/51/229
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-05-21
A/RES/ES-10/2
Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-04-25
A/RES/51/223
Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, in particular in occupied East Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1997-03-13
A/RES/51/217
United Nations pension system : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1996-12-18
A/RES/51/193
Report of the Security Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1996-12-17
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