A/RES/247(III)

Proposal for the adoption of Spanish as one of the working languages of the General Assembly : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 3
Date: 1948-12-07
Committee report: A/704
Meeting record: A/PV.174
Agenda item(s): Proposal for the adoption of Spanish as one of the working languages of the General Assembly.

Tally

Yes 32No 20Abstain 5Did not vote 1

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/247(III)
Country	Position
Argentina	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Chile	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Australia	No
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	No
Belgium	No
Canada	No
China	No
Czechoslovakia	No
Denmark	No
France	No
Iceland	No
Luxembourg	No
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	No
New Zealand	No
Norway	No
Poland	No
Sweden	No
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	No
United Kingdom	No
United States	No
Yugoslavia	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
India	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	Abstain
Thailand (as “SIAM”)	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	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.