A/RES/197(III)[I]

Admission of New Members : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 3
Date: 1948-12-08
Committee report: A/761|A/771
Meeting record: A/PV.177
Agenda item(s): Admission of New Members.

Tally

Yes 41No 6Did not vote 11

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/197(III)[I]
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Canada	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
France	Yes
Greece	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
India	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Norway	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Philippines	Yes
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Thailand (as “SIAM”)	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	No
Czechoslovakia	No
Poland	No
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	No
Yugoslavia	No
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Did not vote
Costa Rica	Did not vote
Ecuador	Did not vote
El Salvador	Did not vote
Guatemala	Did not vote
Haiti	Did not vote
Panama	Did not vote
Paraguay	Did not vote
Peru	Did not vote
Saudi Arabia	Did not vote
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Did not vote

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Topics

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Membership and appointments · r-th-mem

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.