A/RES/1649(XVI)

The urgent need for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons tests under effective international control : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 16
Date: 1961-11-08
Committee report: A/4942/Add.2
Meeting record: A/PV.1049
Draft: Amended by A/L.363
Agenda item(s): The urgent need for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons tests under effective international control.

Tally

Yes 71No 11Abstain 15Did not vote 6

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'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/1649(XVI)
Country	Position
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Cambodia	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Canada	Yes
Chad	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
India	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Italy	Yes
Japan	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Libya	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malaysia (as “FEDERATION OF MALAYA”)	Yes
Mauritania	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
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
South Africa	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Yes
Sudan	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
Albania	No
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	No
Bulgaria	No
Cuba	No
Czechoslovakia	No
Hungary	No
Mongolia	No
Poland	No
Romania	No
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Egypt (as “UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC”)	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
France	Abstain
Ghana	Abstain
Guinea	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Iraq	Abstain
Mali	Abstain
Morocco	Abstain
Nepal	Abstain
Saudi Arabia	Abstain
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Yugoslavia	Abstain
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Did not vote
Central African Republic	Did not vote
Congo (as “CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)”)	Did not vote
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Did not vote
Ecuador	Did not vote
Somalia	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.