A/RES/273(III)

Admission of Israel to membership in the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 3
Date: 1949-05-11
Committee report: A/855
Meeting record: A/PV.207
Agenda item(s): Reports of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Tally

Yes 37No 12Abstain 9

Roll call

Roll call – A/RES/273(III)
Country	Position
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Canada	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
France	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	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
Poland	Yes
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Afghanistan	No
Egypt	No
Ethiopia	No
India	No
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	No
Iraq	No
Lebanon	No
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	No
Pakistan	No
Saudi Arabia	No
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	No
Yemen	No
Belgium	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Greece	Abstain
Sweden	Abstain
Thailand (as “SIAM”)	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain

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Topics

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Membership and appointments · r-th-memMiddle East · r-me-1

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.