A/RES/2828(XXVI)[A]

Urgent need for suspension of nuclear and thermonuclear tests : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 26
Date: 1971-12-16
Committee report: A/8575
Meeting record: A/PV.2022
Agenda item(s): Urgent need for suspension of nuclear and thermonuclear tests.

Tally

Yes 74No 2Abstain 36Did not vote 20

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/2828(XXVI)[A]
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Austria	Yes
Bahrain	Yes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Yes
Bhutan	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Chad	Yes
Chile	Yes
Colombia	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
El Salvador	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Fiji	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Jamaica	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
Malaysia	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Norway	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Qatar	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Singapore	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Sri Lanka (as “CEYLON”)	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Togo	Yes
Trinidad and Tobago	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Uganda	Yes
United Republic of Tanzania	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Albania	No
China	No
Algeria	Abstain
Australia	Abstain
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Bulgaria	Abstain
Cambodia (as “KHMER REPUBLIC”)	Abstain
Canada	Abstain
Central African Republic	Abstain
Congo	Abstain
Cuba	Abstain
Czechoslovakia	Abstain
Democratic Yemen	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
France	Abstain
Greece	Abstain
Guinea	Abstain
Hungary	Abstain
Italy	Abstain
Japan	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Madagascar	Abstain
Mongolia	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Poland	Abstain
Portugal	Abstain
Romania	Abstain
South Africa	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
United States	Abstain
Barbados	Did not vote
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Did not vote
Botswana	Did not vote
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Did not vote
Gabon	Did not vote
Gambia	Did not vote
Haiti	Did not vote
Iraq	Did not vote
Malawi	Did not vote
Maldives	Did not vote
Mauritania	Did not vote
Mauritius	Did not vote
Nicaragua	Did not vote
Niger	Did not vote
Oman	Did not vote
Panama	Did not vote
Sierra Leone	Did not vote
Sudan	Did not vote
Syrian Arab Republic	Did not vote
United Arab Emirates	Did not vote

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Non-proliferation and disarmament · r-th-np

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.