A/RES/2794(XXVI)

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

Body: General Assembly, session 26
Date: 1971-12-09
Meeting record: A/PV.2007
Draft: A/L.649
Agenda item(s): Admission of new Members to the United Nations.

Tally

Yes 93No 1Did not vote 37

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/2794(XXVI)
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Albania	Yes
Algeria	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Bahrain	Yes
Barbados	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cambodia (as “KHMER REPUBLIC”)	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Canada	Yes
Chad	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Fiji	Yes
Finland	Yes
France	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Hungary	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Italy	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Japan	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Kuwait	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB REPUBLIC”)	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malawi	Yes
Malaysia	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
Norway	Yes
Oman	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Poland	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Qatar	Yes
Romania	Yes
Singapore	Yes
Somalia	Yes
South Africa	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Trinidad and Tobago	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Democratic Yemen	No
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Did not vote
Bhutan	Did not vote
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Did not vote
Botswana	Did not vote
Central African Republic	Did not vote
Colombia	Did not vote
Congo	Did not vote
Cuba	Did not vote
Cyprus	Did not vote
Czechoslovakia	Did not vote
Dominican Republic	Did not vote
Egypt	Did not vote
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Did not vote
Gambia	Did not vote
Guinea	Did not vote
Haiti	Did not vote
Iceland	Did not vote
Iraq	Did not vote
Israel	Did not vote
Maldives	Did not vote
Mali	Did not vote
Malta	Did not vote
Mauritius	Did not vote
Morocco	Did not vote
New Zealand	Did not vote
Nicaragua	Did not vote
Niger	Did not vote
Nigeria	Did not vote
Panama	Did not vote
Peru	Did not vote
Rwanda	Did not vote
Saudi Arabia	Did not vote
Senegal	Did not vote
Sierra Leone	Did not vote
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Did not vote
Uganda	Did not vote
United Republic of Tanzania	Did not vote

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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.