United Nations General Assembly Resolution 40/50
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| UN General Assembly Resolution 40/50 | |
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| Date | 2 December 1985 |
| Code | A/RES/40/50 (Document) |
| Subject | Question of Western Sahara |
Voting summary |
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| Result | Adopted |
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 40/50, entitled Question of Western Sahara, is a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly about the situation in Western Sahara, which was adopted on 2 December 1985 at the 40th session of the General Assembly.[1]
Draft Resolution
[edit]On 2 December 1985, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/40/50 by a recorded vote of 96 in favour to 7 against, with 39 abstentions and 17 countries not voting.[2] The table below shows voting results by country:
| For | Against | Abstentions |
 Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
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Central African Republic | Belgium |
 People's Socialist Republic of Albania
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Equatorial Guinea | Brunei Darussalam |
 Algeria
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Gabon | Myanmar |
 Angola
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Guatemala | Canada |
| Antigua & Barbuda | Morocco | Chad |
 Argentina
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Philippines | Chile |
 Australia
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Zaire | Denmark |
 Austria
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El Salvador | |
 Bahamas
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France | |
| Barbados | Federal Republic of Germany | |
| Belize | Iceland | |
 People's Republic of Benin
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Indonesia | |
 Bhutan
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Iraq | |
| Bolivia | Ireland | |
 Botswana
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Israel | |
| Brazil | Italy | |
| Bulgaria | Côte d'Ivoire | |
| Burkina Faso | Japan | |
| Burundi | Jordan | |
| Belarus | Luxembourg | |
| Cameroon | Malaysia | |
| Cape Verde | Maldives | |
| Colombia | Norway | |
| Congo | Pakistan | |
| Costa Rica | Paraguay | |
| Cuba | Portugal | |
| Cyprus | Samoa | |
| Czechoslovakia | Saudi Arabia | |
| People's Democratic Republic of Yemen | Singapore | |
| Dominican Republic | Solomon Islands | |
| Ecuador | Somali Democratic Republic | |
| Egypt | Sri Lanka | |
| Ethiopia | Thailand | |
| Fiji | Turkey | |
| Finland | United Kingdom | |
| Gambia | United States | |
| German Democratic Republic | ||
| Ghana | ||
| Greece | ||
| Grenada | ||
| Guinea-Bissau | ||
| Guyana | ||
| Haiti | ||
| Honduras | ||
| Hungary | ||
| India | ||
| Islamic Republic of Iran | ||
| Jamaica | ||
| Kenya | ||
| Lao People's Democratic Republic | ||
| Lesotho | ||
| Liberia | ||
| Madagascar | ||
| Malawi | ||
| Mali | ||
| Malta | ||
| Mauritania | ||
| Mauritius | ||
| Mexico | ||
| Mongolia | ||
| Mozambique | ||
| New Zealand | ||
| Nicaragua | ||
| Niger | ||
| Nigeria | ||
| Panama | ||
| Papua New Guinea | ||
| Peru | ||
| Polish People's Republic | ||
| Rwanda | ||
| Saint Lucia | ||
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | ||
| São Tomé and Príncipe | ||
| Senegal | ||
| Seychelles | ||
| Sierra Leone | ||
| Spain | ||
| Sudan | ||
| Suriname | ||
| Swaziland | ||
| Sweden | ||
| Syrian Arab Republic | ||
| Togo | ||
| Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| Tunisia | ||
| Uganda | ||
| Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | ||
| USSR | ||
| United Republic of Tanzania | ||
| Uruguay | ||
| Vanuatu | ||
| Venezuela | ||
| Vietnam | ||
| Yugoslavia | ||
| Zambia | ||
| Zimbabwe |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "A/RES/40/50. Question of Western Sahara". www.un.org. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- ^ "Question of Western Sahara : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly - Voting record". United Nations Bibliographic Information System - Dag Hammarskjold Library. Retrieved 10 May 2017.