A/RES/34/37

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

Body: General Assembly, session 34
Date: 1979-11-21
Committee report: A/34/638/Add.1
Meeting record: A/34/PV. 75
Agenda item(s): Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

Tally

Yes 85No 6Abstain 41Did not vote 20

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/34/37
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Albania	Yes
Algeria	Yes
Angola	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Yes
Barbados	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Benin	Yes
Bhutan	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Yes
Congo	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Yemen	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Fiji	Yes
Finland	Yes
German Democratic Republic	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Grenada	Yes
Guinea-Bissau	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Hungary	Yes
India	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malawi	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Mozambique	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Papua New Guinea	Yes
Peru	Yes
Poland	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saint Lucia	Yes
Samoa	Yes
Sao Tome and Principe	Yes
Seychelles	Yes
Singapore	Yes
Sri Lanka	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Suriname	Yes
Sweden	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
Viet Nam	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Central African Republic	No
Equatorial Guinea	No
Gabon	No
Guatemala	No
Morocco	No
Saudi Arabia	No
Bahrain	Abstain
Bangladesh	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Cameroon (as “UNITED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON”)	Abstain
Canada	Abstain
Chad	Abstain
Chile	Abstain
Colombia	Abstain
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Abstain
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Egypt	Abstain
France	Abstain
Germany, Federal Republic of	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Ireland	Abstain
Israel	Abstain
Italy	Abstain
Japan	Abstain
Jordan	Abstain
Lebanon	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Malaysia	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Paraguay	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Portugal	Abstain
Qatar	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Tunisia	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
United Arab Emirates	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
United States	Abstain
Uruguay	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Did not vote
Cambodia (as “DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA”)	Did not vote
China	Did not vote
Comoros	Did not vote
Djibouti	Did not vote
Dominica	Did not vote
Dominican Republic	Did not vote
Gambia	Did not vote
Guinea	Did not vote
Iraq	Did not vote
Kuwait	Did not vote
Maldives	Did not vote
Mauritius	Did not vote
Oman	Did not vote
Romania	Did not vote
Senegal	Did not vote
Sierra Leone	Did not vote
Solomon Islands	Did not vote
Somalia	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.