A/RES/1784(XVII)

The problem of Chinese refugees in Hong Kong : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 17
Date: 1962-12-07
Committee report: A/5333
Meeting record: A/PV.1187
Agenda item(s): Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Tally

Yes 58No 22Abstain 26Did 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/1784(XVII)
Country	Position
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Canada	Yes
Central African Republic	Yes
Chad	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
France	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
Jamaica	Yes
Japan	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Libya	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
Norway	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
South Africa	Yes
Spain	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Trinidad and Tobago	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Albania	No
Algeria	No
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	No
Bulgaria	No
Cambodia	No
Cuba	No
Czechoslovakia	No
Egypt (as “UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC”)	No
Ghana	No
Guinea	No
Hungary	No
Mali	No
Mongolia	No
Morocco	No
Nepal	No
Poland	No
Romania	No
Somalia	No
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	No
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	No
Yugoslavia	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Argentina	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Abstain
Chile	Abstain
Cyprus	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Iraq	Abstain
Mauritania	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Niger	Abstain
Nigeria	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Portugal	Abstain
Senegal	Abstain
Sierra Leone	Abstain
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Abstain
Sudan	Abstain
Sweden	Abstain
Tanganyika	Abstain
Togo	Abstain
Tunisia	Abstain
Uganda	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Burundi	Did not vote
Congo (as “CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)”)	Did not vote
Gabon	Did not vote
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Did not vote

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Humanitarian and protection · r-th-hum

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.