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/70/27
No first placement of weapons in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/31
Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/51
Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world : accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/56
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 · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/45
Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/34
Follow-up to the 2013 High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/70
The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/58
The Arms Trade Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/22
Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/48
Humanitarian pledge for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/41
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 · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/26
Prevention of an arms race in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/38
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 · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/47
Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/57
Universal Declaration on the Achievement of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/40
United action with renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/28
2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and its Preparatory Committee : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/44
Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/62
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/25
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 · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/54
Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/55
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 · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/39
Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-07
A/RES/70/12
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24
A/RES/70/13
Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24
A/RES/70/14
Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24
A/RES/70/17
The Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24
A/RES/70/15
Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24
A/RES/70/16
Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-24
S/RES/2249(2015)
Security Council resolution 2249 (2015) [on terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also known as Da'esh] · 2015-11-20
A/RES/70/10
Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-11-17
S/RES/2248(2015)
Security Council resolution 2248 (2015) [on the situation in Burundi] · 2015-11-12
S/RES/2247(2015)
Security Council resolution 2247 (2015) [on renewal of the authorization of the European Union-led Multinational Stabilization Force (EUFOR ALTHEA) in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a further period of 12 months] · 2015-11-10
S/RES/2246(2015)
Security Council resolution 2246 (2015) [on piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia] · 2015-11-10
S/RES/2245(2015)
Security Council resolution 2245 (2015) [on expansion of the mission of the UN Support Office to AMISOM (UNSOA) and the change of its name to UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS)] · 2015-11-09
A/RES/70/5
Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-10-27
S/RES/2244(2015)
Security Council resolution 2244 (2015) [on extension of the mandate of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea until 15 Dec. 2016] · 2015-10-23
S/RES/2243(2015)
Security Council resolution 2243 (2015) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) until 15 Oct. 2016] · 2015-10-14
S/RES/2242(2015)
Security Council resolution 2242 (2015) [on women and peace and security] · 2015-10-13
S/RES/2240(2015)
Security Council resolution 2240 (2015) [on migrant smuggling and human trafficking into, through and from the Libyan territory and off the coast of Libya] · 2015-10-09
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