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/78/81
Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-07
A/RES/78/100
Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-07
A/RES/78/83
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 · 2023-12-07
A/RES/78/76
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 · 2023-12-07
A/RES/78/73
Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-07
A/RES/78/101
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-07
A/RES/78/77
The occupied Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-07
A/RES/78/82
Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-07
A/RES/78/75
Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-07
A/RES/78/78
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-07
A/RES/78/69
Oceans and the law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-05
A/RES/78/15
Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : report of the Conference on Disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/41
Ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/53
Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/50
Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/47
Through-life conventional ammunition management : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/40
Steps to building a common roadmap towards a world without nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/35
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/33
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 · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/18
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 · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/17
Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/55
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/16
Programme of action to advance responsible State behaviour in the use of information and communications technologies in the context of international security : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/21
No first placement of weapons in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/48
The Arms Trade Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/34
Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/30
Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995, 2000 and 2010 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/27
Follow-up to the 2013 High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/26
Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/65
Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/37
Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/32
Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/66
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/51
Radiological weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/44
Reducing nuclear danger : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/42
Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/45
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 · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/20
Reducing space threats through norms, rules and principles of responsible behaviours : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/29
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 · 2023-12-04
A/RES/78/13
Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2023-12-04
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