A/RES/449(V)[B]

Question of South West Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 5
Date: 1950-12-13
Committee report: A/1681
Meeting record: A/PV.322
Agenda item(s): Question of South West Africa.

Tally

Yes 30No 10Abstain 16Did not vote 4

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/449(V)[B]
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
China	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Poland	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Australia	No
Belgium	No
Canada	No
Ethiopia	No
Greece	No
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	No
Peru	No
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	No
Sweden	No
United Kingdom	No
Argentina	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Abstain
Chile	Abstain
Colombia	Abstain
Costa Rica	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
France	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Abstain
Israel	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Nicaragua	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Dominican Republic	Did not vote
El Salvador	Did not vote
Luxembourg	Did not vote
Panama	Did not vote

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Topics

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Africa · r-af-1

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.