A/RES/1541(XV)

Principles which should guide Members in determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73 e of the Charter : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 15
Date: 1960-12-15
Committee report: A/4651
Meeting record: A/PV.948
Agenda item(s): Study of principles which should guide Members in determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations.

Tally

Yes 69No 2Abstain 21Did not vote 7

Roll call

'Did not vote' combines members that were absent and members present that did not participate; the source does not distinguish them.

Roll call – A/RES/1541(XV)
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Austria	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Cambodia	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Canada	Yes
Central African Republic	Yes
Chad	Yes
Chile	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt (as “UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC”)	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Finland	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Japan	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Libya	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malaysia (as “FEDERATION OF MALAYA”)	Yes
Mali	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Norway	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Portugal	No
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	No
Albania	Abstain
Australia	Abstain
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Bulgaria	Abstain
China	Abstain
Czechoslovakia	Abstain
Dominican Republic	Abstain
France	Abstain
Hungary	Abstain
Italy	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Poland	Abstain
Romania	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
United States	Abstain
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Did not vote
Congo (as “CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)”)	Did not vote
Gabon	Did not vote
Iceland	Did not vote
Jordan	Did not vote
Saudi Arabia	Did not vote
Uruguay	Did not vote

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Sources

Voting data: United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Security Council Voting Data (Version 7, October 2026), https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4055387, and General Assembly Voting Data (Version 6, October 2026), https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4060887. Vetoes: UN Peace & Security Data Hub, Security Council Data – Vetoes Since 1946 (DPPA-SCVETOES). © United Nations; used for non-commercial purposes with attribution.