Suriname vs United States: UN Voting Alignment
How often do Suriname 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
20.1%
of 4,009 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 37.2% | 425 |
| 1980 | 13.7% | 1,294 |
| 1990 | 23.3% | 760 |
| 2000 | 16.4% | 737 |
| 2010 | 21.8% | 792 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 7.9% | 818 |
| Nuclear weapons | 18.8% | 697 |
| Disarmament | 24.5% | 894 |
| Colonialism | 8.3% | 542 |
| Human rights | 12.4% | 769 |
| Economic development | 16.7% | 533 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | Suriname | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
A/RES/ES-10/19 Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-21 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/84 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-07 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/31 Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-04 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/15 Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/14 Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/13 Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/12 Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/11 Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
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 | 2017-11-01 | yes | no |
A/RES/71/95 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2016-12-06 | yes | no |
Frequently asked questions
How often do Suriname and United States vote together at the UN?
Suriname and United States voted the same way in 20.1% of 4,009 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do Suriname and United States agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, Suriname and United States mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 12.4% of 769 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did Suriname and United States last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-21 Suriname voted "yes" and United States voted "no" on A/RES/ES-10/19 (Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).