A/RES/36/97A

Study on conventional disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 36
Date: 1981-12-09
Committee report: A/36/756
Meeting record: A/36/PV.91
Agenda item(s): General and complete disarmament.

Tally

Yes 114Abstain 26Did 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/36/97A
Country	Position
Angola	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Yes
Bangladesh	Yes
Barbados	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Belize	Yes
Bhutan	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Yes
Cambodia (as “DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA”)	Yes
Cameroon (as “UNITED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON”)	Yes
Canada	Yes
Central African Republic	Yes
Chad	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Comoros	Yes
Congo	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Djibouti	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Yes
Fiji	Yes
Finland	Yes
France	Yes
Gabon	Yes
Germany, Federal Republic of	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Guinea-Bissau	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Italy	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Japan	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malaysia	Yes
Maldives	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Norway	Yes
Oman	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Papua New Guinea	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Romania	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
Sri Lanka	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Suriname	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Trinidad and Tobago	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Uganda	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United Republic of Tanzania	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Vanuatu	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Afghanistan	Abstain
Bahrain	Abstain
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Benin	Abstain
Bulgaria	Abstain
Cuba	Abstain
Czechoslovakia	Abstain
Democratic Yemen	Abstain
German Democratic Republic	Abstain
Grenada	Abstain
Hungary	Abstain
India	Abstain
Iraq	Abstain
Jordan	Abstain
Kuwait	Abstain
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Abstain
Mongolia	Abstain
Mozambique	Abstain
Poland	Abstain
Qatar	Abstain
Sao Tome and Principe	Abstain
Seychelles	Abstain
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Abstain
United Arab Emirates	Abstain
Viet Nam	Abstain
Albania	Did not vote
Algeria	Did not vote
Antigua and Barbuda	Did not vote
Botswana	Did not vote
Dominica	Did not vote
Dominican Republic	Did not vote
Equatorial Guinea	Did not vote
Ethiopia	Did not vote
Gambia	Did not vote
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Did not vote
Lebanon	Did not vote
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Did not vote
Malawi	Did not vote
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
Syrian Arab Republic	Did not vote
Zimbabwe	Did not vote

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Non-proliferation and disarmament · r-th-np

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.