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South Sudan vs United States: UN Voting Alignment

How often do South Sudan and United States 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

24.0%

of 388 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946

Agreement by year

0%25%50%75%100%20112024
South Sudan–United States UN General Assembly voting agreement, 20112024. Latest: 1% agreement in 2024.

Agreement by decade

South SudanUnited States UN voting agreement by decade
DecadeAgreementShared votes
201024.0%387
20200.0%1

Agreement by topic

South SudanUnited States UN voting agreement by topic
TopicAgreementShared votes
Israel–Palestine11.1%81
Nuclear weapons25.9%54
Disarmament30.4%69
Colonialism11.7%60
Human rights21.6%116
Economic development19.6%56

Biggest splits

Biggest UN voting splits between South Sudan and United States
ResolutionDateSouth SudanUnited States

A/RES/72/4

Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2017-11-01yesno

A/RES/71/248

International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-21noyes

A/RES/71/203

Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-19noyes

A/RES/71/205

Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-19noyes

A/RES/71/130

The Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-09noyes

R/70/185

2015-12-22yesno

R/70/5

2015-10-27yesno

R/69/5

2014-10-28yesno

R/68/144

UN. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL--REPORTS

2013-12-18yesno

R/68/8

CUBA--UNITED STATES

2013-10-29yesno

Frequently asked questions

How often do South Sudan and United States vote together at the UN?

South Sudan and United States voted the same way in 24.0% of 388 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.

Do South Sudan and United States agree on human rights votes?

On human rights resolutions, South Sudan and United States mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 21.6% of 116 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.

When did South Sudan and United States last disagree at the UN?

Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-11-01 South Sudan voted "yes" and United States voted "no" on A/RES/72/4 (Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).

Data source: Erik Voeten et al., 'United Nations General Assembly Voting Data', Harvard Dataverse.