UN Votes

United States of America

Permanent Security Council member
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5,694

GA votes

1,439 yes · 3,044 no · 1,174 abstain

2,815

SC votes

2,636 yes · 1 no · 98 abstain

95

Vetoes cast

P5 alignment

How often United States of America 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
France51.8%66.3%
Russian Federation21.6%51.5%
United Kingdom60.4%72.5%
China19.1%43.4%
FRA — 33.9%RUS — 14.1%GBR — 39.5%CHN — 12.5%

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.

0%50%100%1946195019651980199520102025
FRARUSGBRCHN

A/RES/43/60B

Questions relating to information : resolultion / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-06

GANo

A/RES/43/58D

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-06

GANo

A/RES/43/58F

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-06

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/54C

The situation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-06

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/60A

Questions relating to information : resolultion / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-06

GANo

A/RES/43/50D

Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa : imposition, co-ordination and strict monitoring of measures against racist South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-05

GANo

A/RES/43/50K

Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa : concerted international action for the elimination of apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-05

GANo

A/RES/43/50H

Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa : dissemination of information against the policies of apartheid of the regime of racist South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-05

GANo

A/RES/43/50E

Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa : relations between South Africa and Israel : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-05

GANo

A/RES/43/50J

Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa : oil embargo against South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-05

GANo

A/RES/43/50B

Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa : military collaboration with South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-05

GANo

A/RES/43/50A

Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa : international solidarity with the liberation struggle in South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-05

GANo

A/RES/43/50F

Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa : programme of work of the Special Committee against Apartheid : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-05

GANo

A/RES/43/50C

Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa : comprehensive and mandatory sanctions against the racist regime of South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-05

GANo

A/RES/43/49

Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-12-02

GANo

A/RES/43/48

Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-30

GANo

S/RES/624(1988)

Security Council resolution 624 (1988) [on renewal of the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force] · 1988-11-30

SCYes

S/RES/623(1988)

Security Council resolution 623 (1988) [on death sentence imposed on an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa] · 1988-11-23

SCAbstain

A/RES/43/28

Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-22

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/45

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-22

GANo

A/RES/43/47

International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-22

GANo

A/RES/43/33

Question of Western Sahara : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-22

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/30

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 · 1988-11-22

GANo

A/RES/43/46

Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-22

GANo

A/RES/43/29

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 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 · 1988-11-22

GANo

A/RES/43/26B

Question of Namibia : implementation of Security Council resolution 435 (1978) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/26A

Question of Namibia : the situation in Namibia resulting from illegal occupation of the territory by South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/26E

Question of Namibia : UN Fund for Namibia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/26C

Question of Namibia : programme of work of the UN Council for Namibia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/25

Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-17

GAYes

A/RES/43/26D

Question of Namibia : dissemination of information and mobilization of international public opinion in support of the immediate independence of Namibia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-17

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/23

Zone of peace and co-operation of the South Atlantic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-14

GANo

A/RES/43/22

Right of peoples to peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-11

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/21

The uprising (intifadah) of the Palestinian people : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-03

GANo

A/RES/43/19

The situation in Kampuchea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-03

GAYes

A/RES/43/18

Law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-11-01

GANo

S/RES/622(1988)

Security Council resolution 622 (1988) [on temporary deployment in Afghanistan and Pakistan of military officers from United Nations operations] · 1988-10-31

SCYes

A/RES/43/13

Pretoria's racial "municipal elections" : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-10-26

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/14

Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-10-26

GAAbstain

A/RES/43/11

Judgment of the International Court of Justice of 27 June 1986 concerning military and paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua : need for immediate compliance : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1988-10-25

GANo

Vetoes cast by United States of America

S/2025/583 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2025-09-18

S/2025/353 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2025-06-04

S/2024/835 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2024-11-20

S/2024/312 — Admission of new Members

2024-04-18

S/2024/173 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2024-02-20

Oral amendment — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2023-12-22

S/2023/970 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2023-12-08

S/2023/773 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2023-10-18

S/2020/852 — Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts

2020-08-31

S/2018/516 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2018-06-01

S/2017/1060  — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2017-12-18

S/2011/24 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2011-02-18

S/2006/878 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2006-11-11

S/2006/508 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2006-07-13

S/2004/783 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2004-10-05

S/2004/240 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2004-03-25

S/2003/980 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2003-10-14

S/2003/891 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2003-09-16

S/2002/1385 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2002-12-20

S/2002/712 — Bosnia and Herzegovina

2002-06-30

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