A/RES/895(IX)

Question of defining aggression : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 9
Date: 1954-12-04
Committee report: A/2806
Meeting record: A/PV.504
Agenda item(s): Question of defining aggression.

Tally

Yes 43No 3Abstain 11Did not vote 3

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/895(IX)
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Yes
Canada	Yes
Chile	Yes
China	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Dominican Republic	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
France	Yes
Greece	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Iceland	Yes
India	Yes
Indonesia	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Mexico	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Norway	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Philippines	Yes
Poland	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Thailand	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
Uruguay	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Australia	No
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	No
United States	No
Argentina	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Cuba	Abstain
Denmark	Abstain
Guatemala	Abstain
Honduras	Abstain
Israel	Abstain
New Zealand	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Egypt	Did not vote
El Salvador	Did not vote
Panama	Did not vote

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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.