Kiribati vs New Zealand: UN Voting Alignment
How often do Kiribati and New Zealand vote the same way at the UN General Assembly? Agreement over every shared roll-call vote since 1946, by year, decade, and topic — plus the resolutions where they split.
Overall agreement
70.4%
of 520 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 87.5% | 40 |
| 2010 | 69.1% | 479 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 54.7% | 53 |
| Nuclear weapons | 72.6% | 113 |
| Disarmament | 72.1% | 136 |
| Colonialism | 70.5% | 61 |
| Human rights | 54.0% | 124 |
| Economic development | 71.6% | 81 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | Kiribati | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
A/RES/71/75 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2016-12-05 | yes | no |
R/69/227 | 2014-12-19 | yes | no |
A/RES/74/267 Enlargement of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions | 2020-01-14 | yes | no |
A/RES/74/237 Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development | 2019-12-19 | yes | no |
A/RES/74/138 Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination | 2019-12-18 | yes | no |
A/RES/74/159 Human rights and cultural diversity | 2019-12-18 | yes | no |
A/RES/74/154 Human rights and unilateral coercive measures | 2019-12-18 | yes | no |
A/RES/74/150 Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order | 2019-12-18 | yes | no |
A/RES/74/155 Promotion of equitable geographical distribution in the membership of the human rights treaty bodies | 2019-12-18 | yes | no |
A/RES/74/85 Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East | 2019-12-13 | no | yes |
Frequently asked questions
How often do Kiribati and New Zealand vote together at the UN?
Kiribati and New Zealand voted the same way in 70.4% of 520 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do Kiribati and New Zealand agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, Kiribati and New Zealand are split: they voted the same way in 54.0% of 124 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did Kiribati and New Zealand last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2020-01-14 Kiribati voted "yes" and New Zealand voted "no" on A/RES/74/267 (Enlargement of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions).