A/RES/40(I)

Voting procedure in the Security Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 1
Date: 1946-12-13
Committee report: A/235
Meeting record: A/PV.61

Tally

Yes 36No 6Abstain 9Did not vote 3

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/40(I)
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Canada	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines (as “PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC”)	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	No
Czechoslovakia	No
Poland	No
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	No
Yugoslavia	No
Chile	Abstain
China	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Ethiopia	Abstain
France	Abstain
Haiti	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
India	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Costa Rica	Did not vote
Panama	Did not vote
Sweden	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.