A/RES/2961(XXVII)[B]

Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 27
Date: 1972-12-13
Committee report: A/8952
Meeting record: A/PV.2108
Agenda item(s): Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations.

Tally

Yes 81No 27Abstain 22Did not vote 2

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/2961(XXVII)[B]
Country	Position
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Benin (as “DAHOMEY”)	Yes
Bhutan	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Cambodia (as “KHMER REPUBLIC”)	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
Canada	Yes
Central African Republic	Yes
Chad	Yes
Colombia	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
El Salvador	Yes
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Fiji	Yes
Finland	Yes
France	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Gambia	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Italy	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Japan	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic (as “LAOS”)	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malawi	Yes
Maldives	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Niger	Yes
Norway	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Qatar	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Singapore	Yes
South Africa	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Uganda	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Albania	No
Algeria	No
Argentina	No
Barbados	No
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	No
Bulgaria	No
Chile	No
China	No
Cuba	No
Czechoslovakia	No
Democratic Yemen	No
Equatorial Guinea	No
Hungary	No
India	No
Iraq	No
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB REPUBLIC”)	No
Mongolia	No
Nigeria	No
Peru	No
Poland	No
Romania	No
Syrian Arab Republic	No
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	No
United Republic of Tanzania	No
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	No
Yugoslavia	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Bahrain	Abstain
Botswana	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Burundi	Abstain
Ecuador	Abstain
Egypt	Abstain
Ghana	Abstain
Guinea	Abstain
Guyana	Abstain
Malaysia	Abstain
Mali	Abstain
Mauritania	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Oman	Abstain
Sierra Leone	Abstain
Somalia	Abstain
Sri Lanka	Abstain
Sudan	Abstain
Trinidad and Tobago	Abstain
United Arab Emirates	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Kuwait	Did not vote
Zambia	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.