United Nations General Assembly Resolution 217

United Nations resolution ratified and adopted in 1948

48 voted for

None voted against

8 abstained

2 present not voting

ResultRatified and Adopted

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 217A was adopted on December 10, 1948, to ratify the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The resolution was adopted by a majority of 48 countries from among the 58 members of the United Nations at that time; however 8 abstained and the Republic of Honduras and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen did not vote.

Voting Results

The result of the voting was the following:^[1]

For	Abstentions
Afghanistan	Byelorussian SSR
Argentina	Czechoslovakia
Australia	Poland
Belgium	Saudi Arabia
Bolivia	Ukrainian SSR
Brazil	South Africa
Burma	Soviet Union
Canada	Yugoslavia
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Ethiopia
France
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Iceland
India
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Liberia
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Siam
Sweden
Syria
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela

References

^ "A/RES/217(III)". UNBISNET. Retrieved 24 May 2015.

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