A/RES/31/72

Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 31
Date: 1976-12-10
Committee report: A/31/382
Meeting record: A/31/PV.96
Agenda item(s): Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques.

Tally

Yes 96No 8Abstain 30Did not vote 12

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/31/72
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Algeria	Yes
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Bahrain	Yes
Bangladesh	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Bhutan	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Canada	Yes
Central African Republic	Yes
Chad	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Yes
Democratic Yemen	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Egypt	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Fiji	Yes
Finland	Yes
German Democratic Republic	Yes
Germany, Federal Republic of	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guinea-Bissau	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Hungary	Yes
Iceland	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Italy	Yes
Japan	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malawi	Yes
Maldives	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Mozambique	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Norway	Yes
Oman	Yes
Papua New Guinea	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Poland	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Qatar	Yes
Romania	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Singapore	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sri Lanka	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Suriname (as “SURINAM”)	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United Arab Emirates	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Albania	No
Ecuador	No
Grenada	No
Kenya	No
Kuwait	No
Mexico	No
Panama	No
Zambia	No
Argentina	Abstain
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Abstain
Barbados	Abstain
Burundi	Abstain
Cameroon (as “UNITED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON”)	Abstain
Chile	Abstain
Comoros	Abstain
Congo	Abstain
Costa Rica	Abstain
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Abstain
Dominican Republic	Abstain
Equatorial Guinea	Abstain
France	Abstain
Gabon	Abstain
Gambia	Abstain
Iraq	Abstain
Jamaica	Abstain
Malaysia	Abstain
Mauritius	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Paraguay	Abstain
Peru	Abstain
Rwanda	Abstain
Togo	Abstain
Trinidad and Tobago	Abstain
Uganda	Abstain
United Republic of Tanzania	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Angola	Did not vote
Benin	Did not vote
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Did not vote
Cambodia (as “DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA”)	Did not vote
China	Did not vote
Guatemala	Did not vote
Guinea	Did not vote
Haiti	Did not vote
Honduras	Did not vote
Sao Tome and Principe	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.