A/RES/1602(XV)

Admission of new Members to the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 15
Date: 1961-04-19
Meeting record: A/PV.989
Draft: A/L.335|A/L.336
Agenda item(s): Admission of new Members to the United Nations.

Tally

Yes 47No 13Abstain 34Did not vote 5

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/1602(XV)
Country	Position
Argentina	Yes
Austria	Yes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Cambodia	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Canada	Yes
Central African Republic	Yes
Chad	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Congo (as “CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)”)	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Finland	Yes
France	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Greece	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Italy	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Norway	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Somalia	Yes
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Cuba	No
Egypt (as “UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC”)	No
Guinea	No
Indonesia	No
Iraq	No
Jordan	No
Lebanon	No
Libya	No
Morocco	No
Saudi Arabia	No
Sudan	No
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	No
Yemen	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Albania	Abstain
Australia	Abstain
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Bulgaria	Abstain
Chile	Abstain
China	Abstain
Cyprus	Abstain
Czechoslovakia	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Ghana	Abstain
Guatemala	Abstain
Hungary	Abstain
India	Abstain
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Abstain
Ireland	Abstain
Japan	Abstain
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Abstain
Malaysia (as “FEDERATION OF MALAYA”)	Abstain
Mali	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Paraguay	Abstain
Poland	Abstain
Portugal	Abstain
Romania	Abstain
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
United States	Abstain
Uruguay	Abstain
Yugoslavia	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Did not vote
Ecuador	Did not vote
Haiti	Did not vote
Nicaragua	Did not vote
Peru	Did not vote

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Membership and appointments · r-th-mem

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.