A/RES/1653(XVI)

Declaration on the prohibition of the use of nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 16
Date: 1961-11-24
Committee report: A/4942/Add.3
Meeting record: A/PV.1063
Agenda item(s): Continuation of suspension of nuclear and thermo-nuclear tests and obligations of States to refrain from their renewal. · The urgent need for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons tests under effective international control.

Tally

Yes 55No 20Abstain 26Did not vote 2

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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/1653(XVI)
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Albania	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Cambodia	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Central African Republic	Yes
Chad	Yes
Congo (as “CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)”)	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)”)	Yes
Egypt (as “UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC”)	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Hungary	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Japan	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Libya	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Mali	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Poland	Yes
Romania	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Togo	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Australia	No
Belgium	No
Canada	No
China	No
Costa Rica	No
France	No
Greece	No
Guatemala	No
Ireland	No
Italy	No
Luxembourg	No
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	No
New Zealand	No
Nicaragua	No
Portugal	No
South Africa	No
Spain	No
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	No
United Kingdom	No
United States	No
Argentina	Abstain
Austria	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Chile	Abstain
Colombia	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Ecuador	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
Haiti	Abstain
Honduras	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Abstain
Israel	Abstain
Malaysia (as “FEDERATION OF MALAYA”)	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Panama	Abstain
Paraguay	Abstain
Peru	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Sweden	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Uruguay	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Dominican Republic	Did not vote
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Did not vote

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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.