UN Votes

USSR

Former permanent Security Council member

Dissolved 1991; UN Security Council seat continued by the Russian Federation.

2,892

GA votes

2,135 yes · 393 no · 341 abstain

725

SC votes

577 yes · 6 no · 106 abstain

162

Vetoes cast

P5 alignment

How often USSR 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 America18.3%29.1%
France29.9%39.5%
Russian Federation0.0%0.0%
United Kingdom26.7%36.6%
China69.2%71.9%
USA — 12.7%FRA — 20.7%RUS — 0.0%GBR — 18.5%CHN — 48.0%

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.

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USAFRAGBRCHN

A/RES/32/105[J]

Assistance to national liberation movement of South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-14

GAYes

A/RES/32/105[I]

Programme of work of the Special Committee on Apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-14

GAYes

A/RES/32/105[M]

International Declaration against Apartheid in Sports : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-14

GAYes

A/RES/32/90[C]

Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAYes

A/RES/32/90[A]

Assistance to Palestine refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAYes

A/RES/32/91[A]

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rightsof the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAYes

A/RES/32/90[E]

Population and refugees displaced since 1967 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAYes

A/RES/32/91[B]

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAYes

A/RES/32/91[C]

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-13

GAYes

A/RES/32/87[G]

General and complete disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/81

Implementation of the Declaration on the Denuclearization of Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/83

Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/87[B]

General and complete disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/86

Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/84[A]

Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/76

Implementation of General Assembly resolution 3473 (XXX) concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol I of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/87[F]

General and complete disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/78

Urgent need for cessation of nuclear and thermonuclear tests and conclusion of a treaty designed to achieve a comprehensive test ban; conclusion of a treaty on the complete and general prohibition of nuclear-weapons tests : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/80

Effective measures to implement the purposes and objectives of the Disarmament Decade : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/87[D]

General and complete disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/85

Reduction of military budgets : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/84[B]

Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/82

Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAYes

A/RES/32/79

Implementation of General Assembly resolution 31/67 concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-12

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/42

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-07

GAYes

A/RES/32/4[B-C]

Financing of the United Nations Emergency Force and of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-02

GAAbstain

A/RES/32/40[A]

Question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/32/40[B]

Question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/32/39

Scale of assessment for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/32/27

Question of Brunei : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GAYes

A/RES/32/32

Question of Belize : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GAYes

A/RES/32/36

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by their specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GAYes

A/RES/32/34

Question of East Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GAYes

A/RES/32/33

Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GAYes

A/RES/32/35

Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia and Namibia and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-28

GAYes

A/RES/32/20

The situation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-25

GAYes

A/RES/32/15

Question of Cyprus : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-09

GAYes

A/RES/32/13

Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-07

GAYes

A/RES/32/14

Importance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination and of the speedy granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples for the effective guarantee and observance of human rights : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-07

GAYes

A/RES/32/12

Status of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1977-11-07

GAYes

Vetoes cast by USSR

S/2026/273 — Middle East (Strait of Hormuz)

2026-04-07

S/2025/116 — Ukraine

2025-02-24

S/2025/115 — Ukraine

2025-02-24

S/2024/826 — Sudan and South Sudan

2024-11-18

S/2024/302 — Non-proliferation

2024-04-24

S/2024/255 — Non-proliferation/DPRK

2024-03-28

S/2024/239 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2024-03-22

S/2023/792 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2023-10-25

S/2023/638 — Mali

2023-08-30

S/2023/506 — Middle East (Syria)

2023-07-11

S/2022/720 — Maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine

2022-09-30

S/2022/538 — Middle East (Syria)

2022-07-08

S/2022/431 — Non-proliferation/DPRK

2022-05-26

S/2022/155 — 2014 Letter from Ukraine (Ukraine)

2022-02-25

S/2021/990 — Maintenance of international peace and security

2021-12-13

S/2020/667 — Middle East (Syria)

2020-07-10

S/2020/654 — Middle East (Syria)

2020-07-07

S/2019/961 — Middle East (Syria)

2019-12-20

S/2019/756 — Middle East (Syria)

2019-09-19

S/2019/186 — Venezuela

2019-02-28

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