A/RES/2949(XXVII)

The situation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 27
Date: 1972-12-08
Meeting record: A/PV.2105
Draft: A/L.686/Rev.1|A/L.686/Rev.1/Add.1
Agenda item(s): The situation in the Middle East.

Tally

Yes 86No 7Abstain 31Did not vote 8

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/2949(XXVII)
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Austria	Yes
Bahrain	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Yes
Bhutan	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Chad	Yes
Chile	Yes
Congo	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Finland	Yes
France	Yes
Gambia	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guinea	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
Lebanon	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malaysia	Yes
Maldives	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Oman	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Peru	Yes
Poland	Yes
Qatar	Yes
Romania	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sri Lanka	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Trinidad and Tobago	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Uganda	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United Arab Emirates	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United Republic of Tanzania	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	No
Colombia	No
Costa Rica	No
Dominican Republic	No
Israel	No
Nicaragua	No
Uruguay	No
Albania	Abstain
Australia	Abstain
Barbados	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Canada	Abstain
Central African Republic	Abstain
China	Abstain
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Fiji	Abstain
Gabon	Abstain
Ghana	Abstain
Guatemala	Abstain
Haiti	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Abstain
Lesotho	Abstain
Liberia	Abstain
Malawi	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Panama	Abstain
Paraguay	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Singapore	Abstain
South Africa	Abstain
Sweden	Abstain
Togo	Abstain
United States	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Algeria	Did not vote
Cambodia (as “KHMER REPUBLIC”)	Did not vote
Democratic Yemen	Did not vote
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Did not vote
Iraq	Did not vote
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB REPUBLIC”)	Did not vote
Portugal	Did not vote
Syrian Arab Republic	Did not vote

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Middle 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.