A/RES/2429(XXIII)

Question of Gibraltar : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 23
Date: 1968-12-18
Committee report: A/7419
Meeting record: A/PV.1747
Agenda item(s): Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

Tally

Yes 67No 18Abstain 34Did not vote 7

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/2429(XXIII)
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Algeria	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cambodia	Yes
Chad	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Congo (as “CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)”)	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)”)	Yes
Democratic Yemen (as “SOUTHERN YEMEN”)	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt (as “UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC”)	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Hungary	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Libya	Yes
Mali	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Poland	Yes
Romania	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United Republic of Tanzania	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Australia	No
Barbados	No
Botswana	No
Canada	No
Denmark	No
Guyana	No
Jamaica	No
Lesotho	No
Liberia	No
Malawi	No
Malaysia	No
Maldives	No
Mauritius	No
New Zealand	No
Sierra Leone	No
Singapore	No
Sweden	No
United Kingdom	No
Austria	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Abstain
Cameroon	Abstain
Central African Republic	Abstain
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Abstain
Ethiopia	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
France	Abstain
Gabon	Abstain
Ghana	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
India	Abstain
Ireland	Abstain
Israel	Abstain
Italy	Abstain
Japan	Abstain
Kenya	Abstain
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Madagascar	Abstain
Mexico	Abstain
Nepal	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
Niger	Abstain
Nigeria	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Senegal	Abstain
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Togo	Abstain
Trinidad and Tobago	Abstain
Uganda	Abstain
United States	Abstain
Albania	Did not vote
Gambia	Did not vote
Kuwait	Did not vote
Malta	Did not vote
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Did not vote
Portugal	Did not vote
South Africa	Did 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.