UN Votes

United Kingdom

Permanent Security Council member
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5,694

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 memberGA onlyGA + SC
United States of America60.4%72.5%
France86.0%90.0%
Russian Federation54.6%70.8%
China40.5%58.0%
USA — 25.0%FRA — 35.6%RUS — 22.6%CHN — 16.8%

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.

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USAFRARUSCHN

A/RES/64/27

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 · 2009-12-02

GAAbstain

A/RES/64/19

Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/64/48

The Arms Trade Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/64/42

Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/64/31

Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995 and 2000 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-12-02

GANo

A/RES/64/17

Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-12-02

GAAbstain

A/RES/64/69

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/64/56

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 · 2009-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/64/55

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 · 2009-12-02

GANo

A/RES/64/54

Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-12-02

GAYes

S/RES/1897(2009)

Security Council resolution 1897 (2009) [on acts of piracy and armed robbery against vessels in the waters off the coast of Somalia] · 2009-11-30

SCYes

S/RES/1896(2009)

Security Council resolution 1896 (2009) [on expansion of the mandate of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) and extension of measures on arms, transport, finacial and travel against the Democratic Republic of the Congo imposed by resolution 1807 (2008)] · 2009-11-30

SCYes

S/RES/1895(2009)

Security Council resolution 1895 (2009) [on authorization of the Member States to establish for a further period of 12 months a multinational stabilization force (EUFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a legal successor to stabilization force (SFOR)] · 2009-11-18

SCYes

S/RES/1894(2009)

Security Council resolution 1894 (2009) [on the protection of civilians in armed conflict] · 2009-11-11

SCYes

A/RES/64/10

Follow-up to the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-11-05

GAAbstain

S/RES/1893(2009)

Security Council resolution 1893 (2009) [on extension of measures imposed by Security Council resolutions 1572 (2004) and 1643 (2005) on sanctions against Côte d'Ivoire and on extension of the mandate of the UN Group of Experts] · 2009-10-29

SCYes

A/RES/64/6

Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-10-28

GAYes

S/RES/1892(2009)

Security Council resolution 1892 (2009) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)] · 2009-10-13

SCYes

S/RES/1891(2009)

Security Council resolution 1891 (2009) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Panel of Experts Established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1591 (2005)] · 2009-10-13

SCYes

S/RES/1890(2009)

Security Council resolution 1890 (2009) [on extension of the authorization of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF)] · 2009-10-08

SCYes

S/RES/1889(2009)

Security Council resolution 1889 (2009) [on women and peace and security] · 2009-10-05

SCYes

S/RES/1888(2009)

Security Council resolution 1888 (2009) [on sexual violence against women and children in situations of armed conflict] · 2009-09-30

SCYes

S/RES/1887(2009)

Security Council resolution 1887 (2009) [on nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament] · 2009-09-24

SCYes

S/RES/1886(2009)

Security Council resolution 1886 (2009) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL)] · 2009-09-15

SCYes

S/RES/1885(2009)

Security Council resolution 1885 (2009) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)] · 2009-09-15

SCYes

A/RES/63/307

Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-09-09

GAYes

S/RES/1884(2009)

Security Council resolution 1884 (2009) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)] · 2009-08-27

SCYes

S/RES/1883(2009)

Security Council resolution 1883 (2009) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)] · 2009-08-07

SCYes

S/RES/1882(2009)

Security Council resolution 1882 (2009) [on children and armed conflict] · 2009-08-04

SCYes

S/RES/1881(2009)

Security Council resolution 1881 (2009) [on extension of the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID)] · 2009-07-30

SCYes

S/RES/1880(2009)

Security Council resolution 1880 (2009) [on renewal of the mandate of the UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) and of the French forces which support it] · 2009-07-30

SCYes

S/RES/1879(2009)

Security Council resolution 1879 (2009) [on renewal of the mandate of the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN)] · 2009-07-23

SCYes

S/RES/1877(2009)

Security Council resolution 1877 (2009) [on extension of the terms of office of permanent and ad litem judges to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and on amending article 14 of the Statute of the International Tribunal] · 2009-07-07

SCYes

S/RES/1878(2009)

Security Council resolution 1878 (2009) [on extension of the terms of office of permanent and ad litem judges to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and on amending article 13 of the Statute of the International Tribunal] · 2009-07-07

SCYes

A/RES/63/298

Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-06-30

GAYes

S/RES/1876(2009)

Security Council resolution 1876 (2009) [on extension of the mandate of UN Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) and the establishment of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS)] · 2009-06-26

SCYes

S/RES/1875(2009)

Security Council resolution 1875 (2009) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force] · 2009-06-23

SCYes

S/RES/1874(2009)

Security Council resolution 1874 (2009) [on measures against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in connection with its nuclear weapon tests] · 2009-06-12

SCYes

S/RES/1873(2009)

Security Council resolution 1873 (2009) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)] · 2009-05-29

SCYes

S/RES/1872(2009)

Security Council resolution 1872 (2009) [on renewal of the authorization of the African Union to maintain the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)] · 2009-05-26

SCYes

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

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