A/RES/33/31[B]

Question of Western Sahara : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 33
Date: 1978-12-13
Committee report: A/33/460
Meeting record: A/33/PV.81
Agenda item(s): Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

Tally

Yes 66No 30Abstain 40Did not vote 14

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/33/31[B]
Country	Position
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Yes
Bahrain	Yes
Bangladesh	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Central African Republic (as “CENTRAL AFRICAN EMPIRE”)	Yes
Chile	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Yes
Finland	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Gambia	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Grenada	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Israel	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Malaysia	Yes
Maldives	Yes
Mali	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Nepal	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Norway	Yes
Oman	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Qatar	Yes
Samoa	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Singapore	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sri Lanka	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Suriname	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Uganda	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Afghanistan	No
Algeria	No
Angola	No
Barbados	No
Benin	No
Botswana	No
Burundi	No
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	No
Congo	No
Cuba	No
Cyprus	No
Democratic Yemen	No
Equatorial Guinea	No
Ethiopia	No
Guinea	No
Guinea-Bissau	No
Guyana	No
Jamaica	No
Kenya	No
Lesotho	No
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	No
Madagascar	No
Mozambique	No
Rwanda	No
Sao Tome and Principe	No
Seychelles	No
Syrian Arab Republic	No
Trinidad and Tobago	No
United Republic of Tanzania	No
Yugoslavia	No
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Bhutan	Abstain
Bulgaria	Abstain
Cameroon (as “UNITED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON”)	Abstain
Canada	Abstain
Chad	Abstain
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Abstain
Czechoslovakia	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Djibouti	Abstain
Fiji	Abstain
France	Abstain
German Democratic Republic	Abstain
Germany, Federal Republic of	Abstain
Greece	Abstain
Hungary	Abstain
India	Abstain
Ireland	Abstain
Italy	Abstain
Japan	Abstain
Kuwait	Abstain
Lebanon	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Malawi	Abstain
Mexico	Abstain
Mongolia	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
Panama	Abstain
Papua New Guinea	Abstain
Peru	Abstain
Poland	Abstain
Portugal	Abstain
Tunisia	Abstain
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Zambia	Abstain
Albania	Did not vote
Cambodia (as “DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA”)	Did not vote
China	Did not vote
Comoros	Did not vote
Iraq	Did not vote
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Did not vote
Malta	Did not vote
Romania	Did not vote
Solomon Islands	Did not vote
Somalia	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
Togo	Did not vote
United Arab Emirates	Did not vote
Viet Nam	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.