A/RES/38/180E

The situation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 38
Date: 1983-12-19
Meeting record: A/38/PV.102
Draft: A/38/L.50
Agenda item(s): Situation in the Middle East.

Tally

Yes 81No 27Abstain 29Did not vote 21

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/38/180E
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Albania	Yes
Algeria	Yes
Angola	Yes
Bahrain	Yes
Bangladesh	Yes
Belarus	Yes
Benin	Yes
Bhutan	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burkina Faso	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Yes
Cambodia	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
China	Yes
Congo	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Yemen	Yes
Djibouti	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Gambia	Yes
German Democratic Republic	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Guinea-Bissau	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Hungary	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Kuwait	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Yes
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Malaysia	Yes
Maldives	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Mozambique	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Niger	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Oman	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Poland	Yes
Qatar	Yes
Romania	Yes
Sao Tome and Principe	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Seychelles	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Sri Lanka	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Suriname	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Uganda	Yes
Ukraine	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United Arab Emirates	Yes
United Republic of Tanzania	Yes
Viet Nam	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Zimbabwe	Yes
Australia	No
Belgium	No
Canada	No
Chile	No
Costa Rica	No
Denmark	No
Dominican Republic	No
Finland	No
France	No
Germany, Federal Republic of	No
Guatemala	No
Haiti	No
Honduras	No
Iceland	No
Ireland	No
Israel	No
Italy	No
Japan	No
Luxembourg	No
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	No
New Zealand	No
Norway	No
Paraguay	No
Portugal	No
Sweden	No
United Kingdom	No
United States	No
Argentina	Abstain
Austria	Abstain
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Abstain
Barbados	Abstain
Belize	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Chad	Abstain
Colombia	Abstain
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Abstain
Ecuador	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Fiji	Abstain
Jamaica	Abstain
Malawi	Abstain
Mexico	Abstain
Myanmar	Abstain
Nepal	Abstain
Papua New Guinea	Abstain
Peru	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Saint Lucia	Abstain
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Abstain
Singapore	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Trinidad and Tobago	Abstain
Uruguay	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Antigua and Barbuda	Did not vote
Central African Republic	Did not vote
Comoros	Did not vote
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Did not vote
Dominica	Did not vote
Equatorial Guinea	Did not vote
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Did not vote
Gabon	Did not vote
Grenada	Did not vote
Lebanon	Did not vote
Lesotho	Did not vote
Liberia	Did not vote
Mauritius	Did not vote
Panama	Did not vote
Rwanda	Did not vote
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Did not vote
Samoa	Did not vote
Solomon Islands	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
Togo	Did not vote
Vanuatu	Did not vote

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Topics

Assigned automatically by keyword rules, not by the UN. Rule ids are shown for audit.

Middle East · r-me-1

UN subject headings (verbatim)

MIDDLE EAST SITUATION

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.