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UN General Assembly
Resolution 40/50
Date2 December 1985
CodeA/RES/40/50 ( Document)
SubjectQuestion of Western Sahara
Voting summary
  • 96 voted for
  • 7 voted against
  • 39 abstained
ResultAdopted

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

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 Central African Republic Belgium
People's Socialist Republic of Albania Equatorial Guinea Brunei Darussalam
  Algeria Gabon Myanmar
  Angola Guatemala Canada
Antigua & Barbuda Morocco Chad
  Argentina Philippines Chile
  Australia Zaire Denmark
  Austria El Salvador
  Bahamas France
Barbados Federal Republic of Germany
Belize Iceland
People's Republic of Benin Indonesia
  Bhutan Iraq
Bolivia Ireland
  Botswana 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

References

  1. ^ "A/RES/40/50. Question of Western Sahara". www.un.org. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  2. ^ "Question of Western Sahara : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly - Voting record". United Nations Bibliographic Information System - Dag Hammarskjold Library. Retrieved 10 May 2017.