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Title Positiebepaling in de verenigde naties: stemvergelijken in de achttiende algemene vergadering (1963)
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3450995
Date 1968
Author(s) Baehr, P.R.
Abstract In the course of a graduate seminar in political science at the University of Amsterdam, an effort was made to discover which states should be considered 'most influential' in the General Assembly of the United Nations. Certain observations in the literature on the behaviour of individual states in the UN are compared with their voting behaviour during the eighteenth General Assembly with regard to eight selected issues; the representation of China, the Korean question, the enlargement of the Security Council and ECOSOC, the question of South-West Africa, the application of the resolution on granting independence to colonial states and nations, the Rhodesian question, the position of Portuguese territories in Africa, and the issue of the Palestinian refugees. The conclusions are based on the results of eight 'key votes' and on the results of the twenty-seven roll-call votes held on tire eight questions (including the eight 'key votes'). Among the findings reported were the following: ' the African and Asian states belonged more often to the majority than either the Western or the Communist states; ' the voting record of the Scandinavian countries was almost identical, but it was not shown that they were less inclined to deviate from the voting patterns of Great Britain than of those of the United States; ' the voting record of African states showed more affinity with that of the Scandinavian states than with that of either Britain or the United States; ' Yugoslavia's voting record was in accordance with that of the African and Asian nations; ' Japan's voting record showed a position somewhere between that of the African and Asian nations and that of the United States; ' Israel's voting record was more in accordance with that of the African and Asian nations than with that of the United States; ' Pakistan's voting record showed a position somewhat nearer to that of the Soviet Union than that of the United States; ' on issues of national self-determination the United States' votes were more in accordance with those of Western European states than with those of African and Asian states; ' the United States and Western European states abstained more often on issues of national self-determination than African and Asian states. Analysis of roll call votes can describe the position a state has taken on various issues and compare it with those taken by other states, but it cannot explain why these positions were taken.
Language nl
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Format application/pdf
Source Acta Politica
Rights https://hdl.handle.net/1887/license:3
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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