United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1631 (XVI)

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1631 was adopted on October 27, 1961 to admit Mauritania to membership in the United Nations.

UN General Assembly Resolution 1631
Date	October 27 1961
Code	A/RES/1631 ([{{{document}}} Document])
Subject	Admission of Mauritania to the United Nations
Voting summary	68 voted for 13 voted against 20 abstained 1 present not voting
Result	Adopted

The resolution was adopted by a majority of 68 members with 13 opposing, 20 abstaining and Cyprus didn't vote.

Voting Results

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

For	Against	Abstentions
Argentina	Cuba	Afghanistan
Australia	Guinea	Albania
Austria	Iraq	Bulgaria
Belgium	Jordan	Byelorussian SSR
Bolivia	Lebanon	Cambodia
Brazil	Libya	Congo-Léopoldville
Burma	Mali	Czechoslovakia
Cameroon	Morocco	Ghana
Canada	Saudi Arabia	Guatemala
Central African Republic	Sudan	Hungary
Ceylon	Syria	India
Chad	United Arab Republic	Indonesia
Chile	Yemen	Mongolia
China		Nepal
Colombia		Pakistan
Congo-Brazzaville		Poland
Costa Rica		Romania
Dahomey		Ukrainian SSR
Denmark		Soviet Union
Dominican Republic		Yugoslavia
Ecuador
El Salvador
Ethiopia
Federation of Malaya
Finland
France
Gabon
Greece
Haiti
Honduras
Iceland
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Japan
Laos
Liberia
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Thailand
Togo
Tunisia
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Upper Volta
Uruguay
Venezuela