A/RES/748(VIII)

Cessation of the transmission of information under Article 73 e of the Charter in respect of Puerto Rico : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 8
Date: 1953-11-27
Committee report: A/2556|A/2556/Corr.1
Meeting record: A/PV.459
Agenda item(s): Puerto Rico (resolution 448 (V) of 12 December 1950).

Tally

Yes 26No 16Abstain 18

Roll call

Roll call – A/RES/748(VIII)
Country	Position
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Greece	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Israel	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Australia	No
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	No
Belgium	No
Canada	No
Czechoslovakia	No
Guatemala	No
India	No
Indonesia	No
Iraq	No
Mexico	No
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	No
Poland	No
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	No
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	No
Yugoslavia	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Argentina	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Egypt	Abstain
France	Abstain
Iceland	Abstain
Lebanon	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Norway	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Saudi Arabia	Abstain
Sweden	Abstain
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Yemen	Abstain

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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.