A/RES/59/131

Question of Western Sahara : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 59
Date: 2004-12-10
Committee report: A/59/478
Meeting record: A/59/PV.71
Draft: A/C.4/59/L.4
Agenda item(s): Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

Tally

Yes 50Abstain 100Did not vote 41

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/59/131
Country	Position
Algeria	Yes
Angola	Yes
Antigua and Barbuda	Yes
Armenia	Yes
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Yes
Barbados	Yes
Belarus	Yes
Belize	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cambodia	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Yes
Dominica	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Eritrea	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Grenada	Yes
Guinea-Bissau	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Jamaica	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Mozambique	Yes
Myanmar	Yes
Namibia	Yes
Naoero (as “NAURU”)	Yes
Panama	Yes
Papua New Guinea	Yes
Russian Federation	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Saint Lucia	Yes
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Yes
Samoa	Yes
South Africa	Yes
Suriname	Yes
Timor-Leste	Yes
Trinidad and Tobago	Yes
Uganda	Yes
United Republic of Tanzania	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	Yes
Viet Nam	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Zimbabwe	Yes
Albania	Abstain
Andorra	Abstain
Argentina	Abstain
Australia	Abstain
Austria	Abstain
Azerbaijan	Abstain
Bahrain	Abstain
Bangladesh	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Benin	Abstain
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Brunei Darussalam	Abstain
Bulgaria	Abstain
Burkina Faso	Abstain
Cameroon	Abstain
Canada	Abstain
Central African Republic	Abstain
Chile	Abstain
Comoros	Abstain
Costa Rica	Abstain
Côte d'Ivoire	Abstain
Croatia	Abstain
Cyprus	Abstain
Czechia (as “CZECH REPUBLIC”)	Abstain
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Dominican Republic	Abstain
Ecuador	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Equatorial Guinea	Abstain
Estonia	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
France	Abstain
Gabon	Abstain
Germany	Abstain
Greece	Abstain
Guatemala	Abstain
Guinea	Abstain
Haiti	Abstain
Honduras	Abstain
Hungary	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
India	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Ireland	Abstain
Israel	Abstain
Japan	Abstain
Jordan	Abstain
Kuwait	Abstain
Kyrgyzstan	Abstain
Latvia	Abstain
Liechtenstein	Abstain
Lithuania	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Malaysia	Abstain
Maldives	Abstain
Malta	Abstain
Marshall Islands	Abstain
Monaco	Abstain
Mongolia	Abstain
Morocco	Abstain
Nepal	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Nicaragua	Abstain
North Macedonia (as “THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA”)	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Palau	Abstain
Peru	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Poland	Abstain
Portugal	Abstain
Qatar	Abstain
Republic of Moldova	Abstain
Romania	Abstain
San Marino	Abstain
Sao Tome and Principe	Abstain
Saudi Arabia	Abstain
Senegal	Abstain
Serbia and Montenegro	Abstain
Sierra Leone	Abstain
Singapore	Abstain
Slovakia	Abstain
Slovenia	Abstain
Somalia	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Sri Lanka	Abstain
Sweden	Abstain
Switzerland	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Togo	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
Ukraine	Abstain
United Arab Emirates	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
United States	Abstain
Uruguay	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain
Afghanistan	Did not vote
Bhutan	Did not vote
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Did not vote
Chad	Did not vote
China	Did not vote
Congo	Did not vote
Djibouti	Did not vote
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Did not vote
Fiji	Did not vote
Gambia	Did not vote
Georgia	Did not vote
Ghana	Did not vote
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Did not vote
Iraq	Did not vote
Italy	Did not vote
Kazakhstan	Did not vote
Kiribati	Did not vote
Lebanon	Did not vote
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Did not vote
Madagascar	Did not vote
Malawi	Did not vote
Mali	Did not vote
Mauritania	Did not vote
Micronesia (Federated States of)	Did not vote
Niger	Did not vote
Nigeria	Did not vote
Oman	Did not vote
Paraguay	Did not vote
Republic of Korea	Did not vote
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Did not vote
Seychelles	Did not vote
Solomon Islands	Did not vote
Sudan	Did not vote
Syrian Arab Republic	Did not vote
Tajikistan	Did not vote
Tonga	Did not vote
Tunisia	Did not vote
Turkmenistan	Did not vote
Tuvalu	Did not vote
Uzbekistan	Did not vote
Vanuatu	Did not vote

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Topics

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Africa · r-af-1

UN subject headings (verbatim)

DECOLONIZATION
WESTERN SAHARA QUESTION

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.