UN Votes

South Africa

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5,694

GA votes

2,611 yes · 238 no · 361 abstain

349

SC votes

340 yes · 0 no · 6 abstain

P5 alignment

How often South Africa 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 America24.9%32.0%
France53.1%57.5%
Russian Federation68.9%71.8%
United Kingdom54.5%58.8%
China74.7%76.8%
USA — 9.0%FRA — 19.2%RUS — 24.9%GBR — 19.7%CHN — 27.1%

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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USAFRARUSGBRCHN

A/RES/50/38[B-X]

Tokelau : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/38[B-V]

Cayman Islands : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/38[B-VII]

Montserrat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/38[B-II]

Anguilla : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/38[B-IX]

St. Helena : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/38[B-I]

American Samoa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/38[B-XI]

Turks and Caicos Islands : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/38[B-VIII]

Pitcairn : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/38[A]

General : Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Tokelau, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/28G

University of Jerusalem "Al-Quds" for Palestine refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/29D

Report 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 · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/28C

Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/29C

Report 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 · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/29B

Report 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 · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/29A

Report 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 · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/38[B]

Individual territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/40

Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/39

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/34

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 · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/33

Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/28E

Operations of UNRWA : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/28A

Assistance to Palestine refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/28F

Revenues derived from Palestine refugees' properties : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/28D

Offers by Member States of grants and scholarships for higher education, including vocational training, for Palestines refugees : resolution adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/32

Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-06

GAYes

A/RES/50/23

Law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/50/22A

Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-04

GAYes

A/RES/50/21

Middle East peace process : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-04

GAYes

A/RES/50/22B

The Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-12-04

GAYes

A/RES/50/18

Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-11-27

GAYes

A/RES/50/10

Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-11-02

GAYes

A/RES/50/11

Multilingualism : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-11-02

GAAbstain

A/RES/50/9

Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-11-01

GAYes

A/RES/49/243

Accreditation of non-governmental organizations to the 4th World Conference on Women : Action for Equality, Development and Peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1995-04-21

GAYes

A/RES/49/196

Situation of human rights in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1994-12-23

GAYes

A/RES/49/190

Strengthening the role of the United Nations in enhancing the effectiveness of the principle of periodic and genuine elections and the promotion of democratization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1994-12-23

GAYes

A/RES/49/149

The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1994-12-23

GAYes

A/RES/49/182

Respect for the universal freedom of travel and the vital importance of family reunification : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1994-12-23

GAYes

A/RES/49/204

Situation of human rights in Kosovo : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1994-12-23

GAYes

A/RES/49/200

Situation of human rights in Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 1994-12-23

GANo