HC Deb 20 December 1968 vol 775 cc504-5W
Sir R. Russell

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give the names of the countries which took part in the vote in the Assembly of the United Nations on the future of Gibraltar, and the way each one voted.

Mr. Whitlock

On 18th December the General Assembly adopted the Fourth Committee's Resolution on Gibraltar by 67 votes to 18, with 34 abstentions and 7 absentees.

Voting on this Resolution was as follows:

In favour:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania Mongolia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Rumania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Southern Yemen, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Republic, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia.

Against:

Australia, Barbados, Botswana, Canada, Denmark, Guyana, Jamaica, Lestotho, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, New Zealand, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sweden, United Kingdom.

Abstaining.

Austria, Belgium, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Ghana, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Luxembourg. Madagascar, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Senegal, Swaziland, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad, Uganda, United States, Upper Volta.

Absent:

Albania, Burma, Gambia, Kuwait, Malta, Portugal, South Africa.