A/RES/1725(XVI)

Report of the Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 16
Date: 1961-12-20
Committee report: A/5068
Meeting record: A/PV.1086
Agenda item(s): Report of the Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

Tally

Yes 62Abstain 37Did 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/1725(XVI)
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
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
Cyprus	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Finland	Yes
France	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Iceland	Yes
India	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
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
Sierra Leone	Yes
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Albania	Abstain
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Bulgaria	Abstain
Cambodia	Abstain
Cuba	Abstain
Czechoslovakia	Abstain
Ecuador	Abstain
Egypt (as “UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC”)	Abstain
Guinea	Abstain
Hungary	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Iraq	Abstain
Jordan	Abstain
Lebanon	Abstain
Libya	Abstain
Mali	Abstain
Mauritania	Abstain
Mongolia	Abstain
Morocco	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Nepal	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Poland	Abstain
Romania	Abstain
Saudi Arabia	Abstain
Senegal	Abstain
Somalia	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Sudan	Abstain
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Togo	Abstain
Tunisia	Abstain
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Yugoslavia	Abstain
Gabon	Did not vote
Honduras	Did not vote
Portugal	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
Tanganyika	Did not vote

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Topics

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Humanitarian and protection · r-th-humMiddle East · r-me-1

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.