A/RES/31/58

Question of Guam : 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 61No 22Abstain 42Did not vote 21

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/31/58
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Albania	Yes
Algeria	Yes
Bangladesh	Yes
Barbados	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Benin	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cambodia (as “DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA”)	Yes
Cameroon (as “UNITED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON”)	Yes
China	Yes
Congo	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Yemen	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
German Democratic Republic	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Guinea-Bissau	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Hungary	Yes
India	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Yes
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Mozambique	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Papua New Guinea	Yes
Peru	Yes
Poland	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Sao Tome and Principe	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Sri Lanka	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic	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
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Australia	No
Belgium	No
Canada	No
Chile	No
Denmark	No
Dominican Republic	No
France	No
Germany, Federal Republic of	No
Grenada	No
Haiti	No
Ireland	No
Israel	No
Italy	No
Japan	No
Luxembourg	No
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	No
New Zealand	No
Nicaragua	No
Paraguay	No
United Kingdom	No
United States	No
Uruguay	No
Argentina	Abstain
Austria	Abstain
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Abstain
Bhutan	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Abstain
Central African Republic	Abstain
Chad	Abstain
Colombia	Abstain
Costa Rica	Abstain
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Abstain
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Fiji	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
Gabon	Abstain
Greece	Abstain
Guatemala	Abstain
Honduras	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Abstain
Jordan	Abstain
Liberia	Abstain
Malawi	Abstain
Malaysia	Abstain
Maldives	Abstain
Nepal	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Oman	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Portugal	Abstain
Qatar	Abstain
Saudi Arabia	Abstain
Singapore	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Suriname (as “SURINAM”)	Abstain
Sweden	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Tunisia	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
Angola	Did not vote
Bahrain	Did not vote
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Did not vote
Comoros	Did not vote
Cyprus	Did not vote
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Did not vote
Gambia	Did not vote
Kuwait	Did not vote
Lebanon	Did not vote
Lesotho	Did not vote
Mauritania	Did not vote
Morocco	Did not vote
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Did not vote
Niger	Did not vote
Nigeria	Did not vote
Romania	Did not vote
Seychelles	Did not vote
Sierra Leone	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
United Arab Emirates	Did not vote
Yemen	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.