A/RES/31/53

Question of Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 31
Date: 1976-12-01
Committee report: A/31/362
Meeting record: A/31/PV.85
Agenda item(s): Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

Tally

Yes 68No 20Abstain 49Did not vote 9

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/31/53
Country	Position
Albania	Yes
Algeria	Yes
Barbados	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Benin	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Yes
Cambodia (as “DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA”)	Yes
Cameroon (as “UNITED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON”)	Yes
Central African Republic	Yes
Chad	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Congo	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Yemen	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	Yes
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Gambia	Yes
German Democratic Republic	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Grenada	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Guinea-Bissau	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Hungary	Yes
Iceland	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malawi	Yes
Mali	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Mozambique	Yes
Norway	Yes
Panama	Yes
Poland	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Romania	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Sao Tome and Principe	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Togo	Yes
Trinidad and Tobago	Yes
Uganda	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United Republic of Tanzania	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Bangladesh	No
Chile	No
India	No
Indonesia	No
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	No
Japan	No
Jordan	No
Malaysia	No
Mauritania	No
Morocco	No
Nicaragua	No
Oman	No
Philippines	No
Saudi Arabia	No
Suriname (as “SURINAM”)	No
Thailand	No
Tunisia	No
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	No
United States	No
Uruguay	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Argentina	Abstain
Australia	Abstain
Austria	Abstain
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Abstain
Bahrain	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Bhutan	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Abstain
Canada	Abstain
Costa Rica	Abstain
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Dominican Republic	Abstain
Egypt	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Fiji	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
France	Abstain
Germany, Federal Republic of	Abstain
Guatemala	Abstain
Haiti	Abstain
Honduras	Abstain
Iraq	Abstain
Ireland	Abstain
Israel	Abstain
Italy	Abstain
Kuwait	Abstain
Lebanon	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Maldives	Abstain
Nepal	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Papua New Guinea	Abstain
Paraguay	Abstain
Peru	Abstain
Qatar	Abstain
Singapore	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Sri Lanka	Abstain
Sudan	Abstain
Syrian Arab Republic	Abstain
United Arab Emirates	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Yugoslavia	Abstain
Angola	Did not vote
Comoros	Did not vote
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Did not vote
Malta	Did not vote
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Did not vote
Niger	Did not vote
Nigeria	Did not vote
Seychelles	Did not vote
South Africa	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.