A/RES/749(VIII)[A]

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

Body: General Assembly, session 8
Date: 1953-11-28
Committee report: A/2572
Meeting record: A/PV.460
Agenda item(s): Question of South West Africa.

Tally

Yes 46No 1Abstain 12Did not vote 1

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/749(VIII)[A]
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Argentina	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Canada	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Greece	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Iceland	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Israel	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Norway	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Thailand	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	No
Australia	Abstain
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
Czechoslovakia	Abstain
France	Abstain
Luxembourg	Abstain
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Poland	Abstain
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Abstain
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	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.