A/RES/2785(XXVI)

International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 26
Date: 1971-12-06
Committee report: A/8542
Meeting record: A/PV.2001
Agenda item(s): Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.

Tally

Yes 87No 2Abstain 23Did not vote 19

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/2785(XXVI)
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Barbados	Yes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Canada	Yes
Chad	Yes
Chile	Yes
Congo	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Finland	Yes
France	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Gambia	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Italy	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Japan	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malaysia	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Norway	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Qatar	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Singapore	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Uganda	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Belgium	No
Democratic Yemen	No
Algeria	Abstain
Bahrain	Abstain
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Bulgaria	Abstain
Central African Republic	Abstain
Colombia	Abstain
Cuba	Abstain
Czechoslovakia	Abstain
Hungary	Abstain
Iraq	Abstain
Jordan	Abstain
Kuwait	Abstain
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB REPUBLIC”)	Abstain
Mongolia	Abstain
Oman	Abstain
Poland	Abstain
Romania	Abstain
Syrian Arab Republic	Abstain
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Abstain
United Republic of Tanzania	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Yugoslavia	Abstain
Albania	Did not vote
Bhutan	Did not vote
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Did not vote
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Did not vote
Cambodia (as “KHMER REPUBLIC”)	Did not vote
China	Did not vote
El Salvador	Did not vote
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Did not vote
Fiji	Did not vote
Haiti	Did not vote
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Did not vote
Lesotho	Did not vote
Malawi	Did not vote
Maldives	Did not vote
Mauritius	Did not vote
Sierra Leone	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Did not vote
Trinidad and Tobago	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.