| Number: | 34/37 |
| Organ: | GA |
| Date: | 21 November |
| Year: | 1979 |
| Meeting: | A/34/PV.75 |
| Code: | A/RES/34/37 |
| Document: | https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=en/A/RES/34/37 |
| For: | 85 |
| Abstention: | 41 |
| Against: | 6 |
| Subject: | Question of Western Sahara |
| Result: | Adopted |
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 34/37, titled Question of Western Sahara, is a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly about the situation in Western Sahara, which was adopted on 21 November 1979 at the 34th session of the General Assembly. It became the eighteenth United Nations General Assembly document concerning the situation of that territory.
The resolution reaffirmed "the inalienable right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination and independence, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Organization for African Unity and the objectives of the UN General Assembly Resolution 1514, and the legitimacy of their struggle to secure the enjoyment of that right.". It also welcomed the Algiers Agreement between the Polisario Front and the Mauritania as an "important contribution in the process of achieving peace", while "deeply deplores the aggravation of the situation resulting from the continued occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco and the extension of that occupation to the territory recently evacuated by Mauritania", urging Morocco to "join the peace process and to terminate the occupation of the territory of Western Sahara".[1]
On 21 November 1979, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/34/37 by a recorded vote of 85 in favour to 6 against, with 41 abstentions and 20 countries not voting.[2] The table below shows related voting results:
Central African Republic
Equatorial Guinea
Bangladesh
Algeria
Gabon
Belgium
Guatemala
Argentina
Morocco
Canada
Australia
Saudi Arabia
Chad
Austria
Chile
Bahamas
Colombia
Barbados
Denmark
Bhutan
France
Botswana
Brazil
Iceland
Indonesia
Burundi
Ireland
Israel
Cape Verde
Italy
Costa Rica
Japan
Cuba
Jordan
Lebanon
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Ecuador
Netherlands
El Salvador
New Zealand
Norway
Fiji
Paraguay
Finland
Philippines
Portugal
Ghana
Qatar
Greece
Grenada
Thailand
Guinea-Bissau
Tunisia
Guyana
Turkey
Haiti
United Arab Emirates
Honduras
United Kingdom
India
United States
Uruguay
Jamaica
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Malawi
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mexico
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Rwanda
Saint Lucia
Samoa
Seychelles
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
Zambia