A/RES/1648(XVI)

Continuation of suspension of nuclear and thermo-nuclear tests and obligations of States to refrain their renewal : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 16
Date: 1961-11-06
Committee report: A/4942/Add.1
Meeting record: A/PV.1047
Agenda item(s): Continuation of suspension of nuclear and thermo-nuclear tests and obligations of States to refrain from their renewal.

Tally

Yes 71No 20Abstain 8Did not vote 4

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/1648(XVI)
Country	Position
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
Congo (as “CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)”)	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt (as “UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC”)	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Finland	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Japan	Yes
Jordan	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
Mauritania	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Norway	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Albania	No
Australia	No
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	No
Bulgaria	No
China	No
Czechoslovakia	No
France	No
Greece	No
Hungary	No
Italy	No
Luxembourg	No
Mongolia	No
Poland	No
Portugal	No
Romania	No
South Africa	No
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	No
United Kingdom	No
United States	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Cuba	Abstain
Haiti	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Did not vote
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Did not vote
Gabon	Did not vote
Niger	Did not vote

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Topics

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Non-proliferation and disarmament · r-th-np

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.