United Nations General Assembly Resolution 34/37

UN General Assembly
Resolution 34/37
Date 21 November 1979
Meeting no. A/34/PV.75
Code A/RES/34/37 (Document)
Subject Question of Western Sahara
Voting summary
85 voted for
6 voted against
41 abstained
Result Adopted

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

On 21 September 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
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan  Central African Republic
People's Socialist Republic of Albania  Equatorial Guinea
 Algeria  Gabon
 Angola  Guatemala
 Argentina  Morocco
 Australia  Saudi Arabia
 Austria
 Bahamas
 Barbados
People's Republic of Benin
 Bhutan
 Botswana
 Brazil
People's Republic of Bulgaria
 Burundi
 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
 Cape Verde
People's Republic of the Congo
 Costa Rica
 Cuba
 Cyprus
 Czechoslovakia
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
 Ecuador
 El Salvador
 Ethiopia
 Fiji
 Finland
 German Democratic Republic
 Ghana
 Greece
 Grenada
 Guinea-Bissau
 Guyana
 Haiti
 Honduras
 Hungary
 India
Interim Government of Iran
 Jamaica
 Kenya
 Laos
 Lesotho
 Liberia
 Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
 Madagascar
 Malawi
 Mali
 Malta
 Mauritania
 Mexico
People's Republic of Mongolia
People's Republic of 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 Soviet Socialist Republic
 USSR
 Tanzania
 Republic of Upper Volta
 Venezuela
 Vietnam
 Yugoslavia
 Zambia

References

  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.


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