A/RES/37/253

Question of Cyprus : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 37
Date: 1983-05-13
Meeting record: A/37/PV.121
Draft: A/37/L.63|A/37/L.63/Add.1
Agenda item(s): Question of Cyprus.

Tally

Yes 103No 5Abstain 20Did not vote 29

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/37/253
Country	Position
Afghanistan	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
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Yes
Cameroon (as “UNITED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON”)	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Congo	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Yemen	Yes
Dominica	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Fiji	Yes
Finland	Yes
France	Yes
Gambia	Yes
German Democratic Republic	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Hungary	Yes
India	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malawi	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Mozambique	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Panama	Yes
Papua New Guinea	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Poland	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Romania	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saint Lucia	Yes
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Yes
Samoa	Yes
Sao Tome and Principe	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Seychelles	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Spain	Yes
Sri Lanka	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Suriname	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Trinidad and Tobago	Yes
Uganda	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Vanuatu	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Viet Nam	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Zimbabwe	Yes
Bangladesh	No
Malaysia	No
Pakistan	No
Somalia	No
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	No
Belgium	Abstain
Canada	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Germany, Federal Republic of	Abstain
Guatemala	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Israel	Abstain
Italy	Abstain
Japan	Abstain
Jordan	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Maldives	Abstain
Morocco	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Saudi Arabia	Abstain
Tunisia	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
United States	Abstain
Albania	Did not vote
Antigua and Barbuda	Did not vote
Bahrain	Did not vote
Belize	Did not vote
Cambodia (as “DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA”)	Did not vote
Central African Republic	Did not vote
Chad	Did not vote
Chile	Did not vote
Comoros	Did not vote
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Did not vote
Djibouti	Did not vote
El Salvador	Did not vote
Equatorial Guinea	Did not vote
Gabon	Did not vote
Grenada	Did not vote
Guinea-Bissau	Did not vote
Honduras	Did not vote
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Did not vote
Iraq	Did not vote
Kuwait	Did not vote
Mauritania	Did not vote
Oman	Did not vote
Qatar	Did not vote
Singapore	Did not vote
Solomon Islands	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
United Arab Emirates	Did not vote
United Republic of Tanzania	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.