United Nations General Assembly Resolution 34/37

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UN General Assembly
Resolution 34/37
Flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Date21 November 1979
Meeting no.A/34/PV.75
CodeA/RES/34/37 (Document)
SubjectQuestion of Western Sahara
Voting summary
  • 85 voted for
  • 6 voted against
  • 41 abstained
ResultAdopted

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 34/37, titled Question of Western Sahara, is a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly about the situation in Western Sahara, which was adopted on 21 November 1979 at the 34th session of the General Assembly. It became the eighteenth United Nations General Assembly document concerning the situation of that territory.

The resolution reaffirmed "the inalienable right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination and independence, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Organization for African Unity and the objectives of the UN General Assembly Resolution 1514, and the legitimacy of their struggle to secure the enjoyment of that right.". It also welcomed the Algiers Agreement between the Polisario Front and the Mauritania as an "important contribution in the process of achieving peace", while "deeply deplores the aggravation of the situation resulting from the continued occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco and the extension of that occupation to the territory recently evacuated by Mauritania", urging Morocco to "join the peace process and to terminate the occupation of the territory of Western Sahara".[1]

Draft resolution[edit]

On 21 November 1979, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/34/37 by a recorded vote of 85 in favour to 6 against, with 41 abstentions and 20 countries not voting.[2] The table below shows related voting results:

For Against Abstain
Afghanistan  Central African Republic Bahrain
Albania  Equatorial Guinea  Bangladesh
 Algeria  Gabon  Belgium
Angola  Guatemala Burma
 Argentina  Morocco  Canada
 Australia  Saudi Arabia  Chad
 Austria  Chile
 Bahamas  Colombia
 Barbados  Denmark
Benin Egypt
 Bhutan  France
 Botswana Federal Republic of Germany
 Brazil  Iceland
Bulgaria  Indonesia
 Burundi  Ireland
 Byelorussian SSR  Israel
 Cape Verde  Italy
Congo  Ivory Coast
 Costa Rica  Japan
 Cuba  Jordan
 Cyprus  Lebanon
Czechoslovakia  Luxembourg
Democratic Yemen  Malaysia
 Ecuador  Netherlands
 El Salvador  New Zealand
Ethiopia  Norway
 Fiji  Paraguay
 Finland  Philippines
 German Democratic Republic  Portugal
 Ghana  Qatar
 Greece Spain
 Grenada  Thailand
 Guinea-Bissau  Tunisia
 Guyana  Turkey
 Haiti  United Arab Emirates
 Honduras  United Kingdom
Hungary United Republic of Cameroon
 India  United States
 Iran  Uruguay
 Jamaica Yemen Arab Republic
 Kenya  Zaire
 Laos
 Lesotho
 Liberia
 Libya
Madagascar
 Malawi
 Mali
 Malta
 Mauritania
 Mexico
Mongolia
Mozambique
Nepal
 Nicaragua
 Niger
 Nigeria
 Pakistan
 Panama
 Papua New Guinea
 Peru
Poland
 Rwanda
 Saint Lucia
 Samoa
 São Tomé and Príncipe
 Seychelles
 Singapore
 Sri Lanka
Sudan
 Suriname
 Swaziland
 Sweden
 Syria
 Togo
 Trinidad and Tobago
 Uganda
 Ukrainian SSR
 Soviet Union
 United Republic of Tanzania
 Upper Volta
Venezuela
 Vietnam
Yugoslavia
 Zambia

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Question of Western Sahara Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly at its 34th session: A/RES/34/37 - A/34/PV.75 - 21 November 1979
  2. ^ "Question of Western Sahara : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly - Voting record". United Nations Bibliographic Information System - Dag Hammarskjold Library. Retrieved 3 October 2012.