A/RES/36/96C

Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 36
Date: 1981-12-09
Committee report: A/36/743
Meeting record: A/36/PV.91
Agenda item(s): Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons.

Tally

Yes 86No 20Abstain 34Did not vote 17

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/36/96C
Country	Position
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Yes
Bangladesh	Yes
Barbados	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Belize	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Cambodia (as “DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA”)	Yes
Canada	Yes
Central African Republic	Yes
Chad	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Comoros	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Djibouti	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	Yes
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Yes
Fiji	Yes
France	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Germany, Federal Republic of	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Italy	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Japan	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Malaysia	Yes
Maldives	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Norway	Yes
Oman	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Papua New Guinea	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saint Lucia	Yes
Samoa	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Singapore	Yes
Solomon Islands	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Suriname	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Vanuatu	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Afghanistan	No
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	No
Bulgaria	No
Congo	No
Cuba	No
Czechoslovakia	No
Democratic Yemen	No
Ethiopia	No
German Democratic Republic	No
Hungary	No
Lao People's Democratic Republic	No
Mongolia	No
Mozambique	No
Poland	No
Romania	No
Seychelles	No
Syrian Arab Republic	No
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	No
Viet Nam	No
Argentina	Abstain
Bahrain	Abstain
Bhutan	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Burundi	Abstain
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Abstain
Cameroon (as “UNITED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON”)	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
Guinea	Abstain
Guinea-Bissau	Abstain
Haiti	Abstain
India	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Iraq	Abstain
Kuwait	Abstain
Lebanon	Abstain
Madagascar	Abstain
Mali	Abstain
Malta	Abstain
Mexico	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Nepal	Abstain
Nicaragua	Abstain
Panama	Abstain
Peru	Abstain
Qatar	Abstain
Sri Lanka	Abstain
Trinidad and Tobago	Abstain
Uganda	Abstain
United Arab Emirates	Abstain
United Republic of Tanzania	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Yugoslavia	Abstain
Albania	Did not vote
Algeria	Did not vote
Angola	Did not vote
Antigua and Barbuda	Did not vote
Benin	Did not vote
Botswana	Did not vote
Cyprus	Did not vote
Dominica	Did not vote
Gambia	Did not vote
Grenada	Did not vote
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Did not vote
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Did not vote
Malawi	Did not vote
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Did not vote
Sao Tome and Principe	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
Zimbabwe	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.