A/RES/8(I)

Question of refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 1
Date: 1946-02-12
Committee report: A/45
Meeting record: A/PV.30

Tally

Yes 42Did not vote 9

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/8(I)
Country	Position
Argentina	Yes
Australia	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Canada	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
France	Yes
Greece	Yes
Honduras	Yes
India	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Norway	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines (as “PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC”)	Yes
Poland	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Cuba	Did not vote
Egypt	Did not vote
Guatemala	Did not vote
Haiti	Did not vote
Lebanon	Did not vote
Luxembourg	Did not vote
Mexico	Did not vote
Nicaragua	Did not vote
Panama	Did not vote

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Topics

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Humanitarian and protection · r-th-hum

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.