A/RES/56/232

Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 56
Date: 2001-12-24
Committee report: A/56/582
Meeting record: A/56/PV.92
Draft: A/C.3/56/L.31
Agenda item(s): Right of peoples to self-determination.

Tally

Yes 77No 20Abstain 20Did not vote 72

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/56/232
Country	Position
Algeria	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Armenia	Yes
Azerbaijan	Yes
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Yes
Bahrain	Yes
Bangladesh	Yes
Benin	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Brunei Darussalam	Yes
Burkina Faso	Yes
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Yes
Cambodia	Yes
Cameroon	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Congo	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Côte d'Ivoire	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Yes
Djibouti	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	Yes
Eritrea	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Ghana	Yes
Grenada	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Guinea	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Haiti	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Kuwait	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Yes
Malaysia	Yes
Maldives	Yes
Mali	Yes
Mauritania	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Morocco	Yes
Mozambique	Yes
Myanmar	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Nigeria	Yes
Oman	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Russian Federation	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Senegal	Yes
Singapore	Yes
Sri Lanka	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Togo	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
United Republic of Tanzania	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Viet Nam	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Belgium	No
Canada	No
Chile	No
Czechia (as “CZECH REPUBLIC”)	No
Denmark	No
Finland	No
Germany	No
Hungary	No
Iceland	No
Israel	No
Japan	No
Luxembourg	No
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	No
North Macedonia (as “THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA”)	No
Norway	No
Poland	No
Sweden	No
Ukraine	No
United Kingdom	No
United States	No
Andorra	Abstain
Australia	Abstain
Austria	Abstain
Bulgaria	Abstain
Cyprus	Abstain
France	Abstain
Greece	Abstain
Ireland	Abstain
Italy	Abstain
Latvia	Abstain
Lithuania	Abstain
Malta	Abstain
Monaco	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Portugal	Abstain
Republic of Korea	Abstain
San Marino	Abstain
Slovakia	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Yugoslavia	Abstain
Afghanistan	Did not vote
Albania	Did not vote
Angola	Did not vote
Antigua and Barbuda	Did not vote
Barbados	Did not vote
Belarus	Did not vote
Belize	Did not vote
Bhutan	Did not vote
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Did not vote
Burundi	Did not vote
Central African Republic	Did not vote
Chad	Did not vote
Comoros	Did not vote
Croatia	Did not vote
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Did not vote
Dominica	Did not vote
El Salvador	Did not vote
Estonia	Did not vote
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Did not vote
Fiji	Did not vote
Gabon	Did not vote
Gambia	Did not vote
Georgia	Did not vote
Guinea-Bissau	Did not vote
Honduras	Did not vote
Iraq	Did not vote
Kazakhstan	Did not vote
Kiribati	Did not vote
Kyrgyzstan	Did not vote
Lesotho	Did not vote
Liberia	Did not vote
Liechtenstein	Did not vote
Madagascar	Did not vote
Malawi	Did not vote
Marshall Islands	Did not vote
Micronesia (Federated States of)	Did not vote
Mongolia	Did not vote
Namibia	Did not vote
Naoero (as “NAURU”)	Did not vote
Nicaragua	Did not vote
Niger	Did not vote
Palau	Did not vote
Panama	Did not vote
Papua New Guinea	Did not vote
Paraguay	Did not vote
Qatar	Did not vote
Republic of Moldova	Did not vote
Romania	Did not vote
Rwanda	Did not vote
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Did not vote
Saint Lucia	Did not vote
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Did not vote
Samoa	Did not vote
Sao Tome and Principe	Did not vote
Seychelles	Did not vote
Sierra Leone	Did not vote
Slovenia	Did not vote
Solomon Islands	Did not vote
Somalia	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
Suriname	Did not vote
Tajikistan	Did not vote
Tonga	Did not vote
Trinidad and Tobago	Did not vote
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Did not vote
Turkmenistan	Did not vote
Tuvalu	Did not vote
Uganda	Did not vote
United Arab Emirates	Did not vote
Uzbekistan	Did not vote
Vanuatu	Did not vote
Zimbabwe	Did not vote

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UN subject headings (verbatim)

SELF-DETERMINATION OF PEOPLES

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.