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title: "UN Roll call 885 Vote | Model Diplomat"
description: "Roll call 885: General Assembly recorded vote. Rejected in 1965 — 46 in favour, 46 against, 20 abstaining. TO ADOPT 12-POWER DRAFT RESOLUTION (A/L.469) RECOGNIZING THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AS THE LAWFUL REPRESENTATION IN THE UN AND EXPELLING FORTHWITH THE NATIONALIST CHINA REPRESENTATION."
url: "https://modeldiplomat.com/un-vote/885"
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# Roll call 885: CHINA REPRESENTATION

Voted 1965-11-05 · General Assembly recorded vote

Yes

46

41%

No

46

41%

Abstain

20

18%

Absent

0

0%

## Summary

TO ADOPT 12-POWER DRAFT RESOLUTION (A/L.469) RECOGNIZING THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AS THE LAWFUL REPRESENTATION IN THE UN AND EXPELLING FORTHWITH THE NATIONALIST CHINA REPRESENTATION.

### Notable abstentions

Austria, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Chile, Cyprus, Iceland, Iran, Jamaica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Netherlands, Portugal

## Primary sources

- [Voeten, UN General Assembly Voting Data (Harvard Dataverse)](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LEJUQZ)

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