A/RES/313(IV)

Draft Convention on Freedom of Information : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 4
Date: 1949-10-20
Committee report: A/1010
Meeting record: A/PV.232
Agenda item(s): Draft convention on rreedom of information.

Tally

Yes 38No 10Abstain 10Did not vote 1

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/313(IV)
Country	Position
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Canada	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Greece	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Israel	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Norway	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Poland	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Brazil	No
Colombia	No
Costa Rica	No
France	No
Guatemala	No
Haiti	No
Lebanon	No
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	No
Uruguay	No
Yugoslavia	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Cuba	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Ethiopia	Abstain
India	Abstain
Iraq	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Saudi Arabia	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Iceland	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.