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A/RES/1957(XVIII)

Installation of mechanical means of voting : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body
General Assembly, session 18
Date
1963-12-12
Meeting record
A/PV.1278
Draft
A/L.444/Rev.1
Agenda item(s)
Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Improvement of the Methods of Work of the General Assembly.

Tally

Yes 51No 10Abstain 23Did not vote 27

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/1957(XVIII)
CountryPosition
AfghanistanYes
ArgentinaYes
BelgiumYes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)Yes
BrazilYes
CameroonYes
CanadaYes
Central African RepublicYes
ChadYes
ChileYes
ChinaYes
Congo (as “CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)”)Yes
Costa RicaYes
CyprusYes
DenmarkYes
Egypt (as “UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC”)Yes
FinlandYes
FranceYes
GuatemalaYes
IndiaYes
IndonesiaYes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)Yes
IraqYes
IrelandYes
IsraelYes
ItalyYes
JamaicaYes
JapanYes
KuwaitYes
LiberiaYes
LibyaYes
LuxembourgYes
MadagascarYes
MalaysiaYes
NepalYes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)Yes
NigeriaYes
NorwayYes
PakistanYes
PanamaYes
ParaguayYes
Sierra LeoneYes
South AfricaYes
SpainYes
SwedenYes
ThailandYes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)Yes
United KingdomYes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)Yes
YugoslaviaYes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)No
BulgariaNo
CzechoslovakiaNo
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)”)No
HungaryNo
MongoliaNo
PolandNo
RomaniaNo
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)No
AlgeriaAbstain
AustraliaAbstain
AustriaAbstain
BurundiAbstain
CambodiaAbstain
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)Abstain
EthiopiaAbstain
GuineaAbstain
JordanAbstain
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)Abstain
LebanonAbstain
MauritaniaAbstain
MexicoAbstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)Abstain
New ZealandAbstain
PeruAbstain
PortugalAbstain
RwandaAbstain
SenegalAbstain
SomaliaAbstain
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)Abstain
SudanAbstain
United StatesAbstain
AlbaniaDid not vote
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)Did not vote
ColombiaDid not vote
CubaDid not vote
Dominican RepublicDid not vote
EcuadorDid not vote
El SalvadorDid not vote
GabonDid not vote
GhanaDid not vote
GreeceDid not vote
HaitiDid not vote
HondurasDid not vote
IcelandDid not vote
MaliDid not vote
MoroccoDid not vote
NicaraguaDid not vote
NigerDid not vote
PhilippinesDid not vote
Saudi ArabiaDid not vote
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)Did not vote
TanganyikaDid not vote
TogoDid not vote
Trinidad and TobagoDid not vote
TunisiaDid not vote
UgandaDid not vote
UruguayDid not vote
YemenDid not vote

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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.