A/RES/497(V)

Place of meeting of the 6th regular session of the General Assembly : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 5
Date: 1950-12-14
Committee report: A/1593
Meeting record: A/PV.324

Tally

Yes 31No 16Abstain 11Did not vote 2

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/497(V)
Country	Position
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Chile	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
France	Yes
Greece	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Poland	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Australia	No
Canada	No
China	No
India	No
Indonesia	No
Israel	No
Liberia	No
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	No
New Zealand	No
Norway	No
Pakistan	No
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	No
Sweden	No
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	No
United Kingdom	No
Yemen	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Argentina	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
Iraq	Abstain
Mexico	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
United States	Abstain
Guatemala	Did not vote
Peru	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.