A/RES/1631(XVI)

Admission of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to membership in the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 16
Date: 1961-10-27
Meeting record: A/PV.1043
Draft: A/L.358|A/L.358/Add.1
Agenda item(s): Admission of new Members to the United Nations.

Tally

Yes 68No 13Abstain 20Did not vote 1

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/1631(XVI)
Country	Position
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Canada	Yes
Central African Republic	Yes
Chad	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Congo (as “CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)”)	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Finland	Yes
France	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Greece	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Italy	Yes
Japan	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malaysia (as “FEDERATION OF MALAYA”)	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Norway	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Somalia	Yes
South Africa	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Cuba	No
Egypt (as “UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC”)	No
Guinea	No
Iraq	No
Jordan	No
Lebanon	No
Libya	No
Mali	No
Morocco	No
Saudi Arabia	No
Sudan	No
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	No
Yemen	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Albania	Abstain
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Bulgaria	Abstain
Cambodia	Abstain
Czechoslovakia	Abstain
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)”)	Abstain
Ghana	Abstain
Guatemala	Abstain
Hungary	Abstain
India	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Mongolia	Abstain
Nepal	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Poland	Abstain
Romania	Abstain
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Abstain
Yugoslavia	Abstain
Cyprus	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.