A/RES/904(IX)

Voting procedure on questions relating to reports and petitions concerning the Territory of South West Africa : request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 9
Date: 1954-11-23
Meeting record: A/PV.501
Draft: A/L.178
Agenda item(s): Question of South West Africa.

Tally

Yes 25No 11Abstain 21Did 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/904(IX)
Country	Position
Afghanistan	Yes
Brazil	Yes
Canada	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Honduras	Yes
India	Yes
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Norway	Yes
Pakistan	Yes
Panama	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic (as “SYRIA”)	Yes
Thailand	Yes
United States	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Argentina	No
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	No
Chile	No
Czechoslovakia	No
Israel	No
Philippines	No
Poland	No
South Africa (as “UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA”)	No
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	No
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	No
Uruguay	No
Australia	Abstain
Belgium	Abstain
China	Abstain
Colombia	Abstain
Dominican Republic	Abstain
Ecuador	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Ethiopia	Abstain
France	Abstain
Greece	Abstain
Haiti	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Liberia	Abstain
Mexico	Abstain
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Abstain
Nicaragua	Abstain
Paraguay	Abstain
Peru	Abstain
United Kingdom	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Yugoslavia	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Did not vote
Iceland	Did not vote
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Did not vote

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Topics

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Africa · r-af-1International justice · r-th-just

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.