A/RES/36/46

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

Body: General Assembly, session 36
Date: 1981-11-24
Committee report: A/36/677|A/36/677/Add.1
Meeting record: A/36/PV.70
Agenda item(s): Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

Tally

Yes 76No 9Abstain 57Did not vote 15

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/36/46
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Albania	Yes
Algeria	Yes
Angola	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Yes
Bangladesh	Yes
Barbados	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Belize	Yes
Benin	Yes
Bhutan	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Yes
Chad	Yes
Congo	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Yemen	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Fiji	Yes
German Democratic Republic	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Grenada	Yes
Guinea-Bissau	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Hungary	Yes
India	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Maldives	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Mozambique	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Panama	Yes
Peru	Yes
Poland	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saint Lucia	Yes
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Yes
Sao Tome and Principe	Yes
Seychelles	Yes
Suriname	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
Vanuatu	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Viet Nam	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Zimbabwe	Yes
Central African Republic	No
Chile	No
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	No
El Salvador	No
Equatorial Guinea	No
Gabon	No
Morocco	No
Senegal	No
United States	No
Australia	Abstain
Austria	Abstain
Bahrain	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Abstain
Cambodia (as “DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA”)	Abstain
Cameroon (as “UNITED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON”)	Abstain
Canada	Abstain
Colombia	Abstain
Comoros	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Djibouti	Abstain
Dominican Republic	Abstain
Egypt	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
France	Abstain
Gambia	Abstain
Germany, Federal Republic of	Abstain
Guatemala	Abstain
Guinea	Abstain
Honduras	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Ireland	Abstain
Israel	Abstain
Italy	Abstain
Japan	Abstain
Jordan	Abstain
Kenya	Abstain
Lebanon	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Malawi	Abstain
Malaysia	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Niger	Abstain
Nigeria	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Oman	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Paraguay	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Portugal	Abstain
Qatar	Abstain
Saudi Arabia	Abstain
Sierra Leone	Abstain
Solomon Islands	Abstain
Somalia	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Sudan	Abstain
Sweden	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Tunisia	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
Uruguay	Abstain
Antigua and Barbuda	Did not vote
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Did not vote
China	Did not vote
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Did not vote
Dominica	Did not vote
Iraq	Did not vote
Kuwait	Did not vote
Papua New Guinea	Did not vote
Romania	Did not vote
Samoa	Did not vote
Singapore	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
Sri Lanka	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.