Tracking delivery

How to find an official commitment and check what happened to it

Q: Where can I see whether a country left a treaty?

On the treaty's status page in the UN Treaty Collection.

Last checked 7 November 2026 · 10 sources

Short answer

Start by identifying where the commitment was made, then go to the official record for that venue. UK written statements sit in Parliament's database with a WSID number ¹. Indian assurances are tracked through the Online Assurances Monitoring System ³. Treaty actions such as ratifications and withdrawals are in the UN Treaty Collection ⁵. Climate pledges are in the UNFCCC NDC Registry ⁴. Each record then points to a follow-up report, response or vote.

UK written statements: Searchable by WSID, online since 17 November 2014 ¹
India assurances: Online Assurances Monitoring System ³
Treaty actions: UN Treaty Collection status pages ⁵
Climate pledges: UNFCCC NDC Registry ⁴
UN votes: Voting data in the UN Digital Library ⁸

Step 1: identify the venue

A statement in Parliament, a treaty signature, a UN pledge and a company forecast each leave a record in a different place. Match the commitment to its venue first.

Where the commitment was made	Official record	Follow-up record
UK Parliament, written statement ¹	Written statements database, by WSID ¹	Hansard only for statements before 17 November 2014 ¹
Indian Parliament, floor assurance ²	Online Assurances Monitoring System ³	Committee on Government Assurances reports ³
Treaty ⁵	UN Treaty Collection status page ⁵	Depositary notifications ⁵
Paris Agreement pledge ⁴	NDC Registry ⁴	Registry status showing the active document ⁴
UN conference pledge ⁶	SDG Knowledge Platform commitments ⁶	Entries filterable by theme, SDG and entity type ⁶
Open Government Partnership ⁷	National action plan ⁷	IRM reports ⁷

Step 2: find the exact text

For UK written statements, find the statement in the database by its WSID, the Written Statement Identifying Number assigned per session ¹. Statements before 17 November 2014 were published only in Hansard ¹.

For India, the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs monitors assurances, and committees of both Houses scrutinise how far ministries have implemented them ². Assurances move between the Ministry and departments through OAMS ³. The Lok Sabha committee's reports review pending assurances one ministry at a time, as the Eighty-Fifth Report did for the Legislative Department in July 2023 ³.

For treaties, the UN Treaty Collection status page lists each participant with dates of signature and ratification, and footnotes record declarations and withdrawals ⁵.

Step 3: check the deadline

Indian assurances are due within three months of the date given ³
Australian Senate committee reports need a government response within three months ¹⁰
Paris Agreement withdrawals take effect one year after the depositary receives notice, as the United States record shows ⁵
UK Public Accounts Committee reports are answered in Treasury Minutes listed by month of publication ⁹

Step 4: read the follow-up record

Indian committee reports record requests to extend or drop an assurance and the committee's decision ³. The Lok Sabha committee has existed since 1 December 1953 ². The OGP Independent Reporting Mechanism issues reports at key moments in the action plan cycle ⁷. The UN SDG Knowledge Platform lets users filter ocean commitments by ocean basin, theme, SDG and type of entity ⁶. The NDC Registry shows which NDC is active and is not an assessment of whether it was met ⁴.

For UN General Assembly positions, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library notes that most resolutions are adopted without a vote ⁸. Where a recorded vote was taken, it identifies each member state's position ⁸.

Step 5: note changes of position

Look for the later record that changes the first one. On the Paris Agreement page, the United States entry shows acceptance on 3 September 2016, a withdrawal effective 4 November 2020, a new acceptance on 20 January 2021 and a withdrawal notified on 27 January 2025 ⁵. For UN votes, voting charts from 1975 to 1982 included notices a state later sent about how it intended to vote, and charts from 1982 onward do not ⁸.

Common questions

Where are UK written ministerial statements published?

In the UK Parliament written statements database, each with a WSID ¹.

How do I track an assurance given in the Indian Parliament?

Through OAMS and the reports of the Committee on Government Assurances ³.

Where can I see whether a country left a treaty?

On the treaty's status page in the UN Treaty Collection ⁵.

How do I see how a country voted at the UN?

Use the voting data in the UN Digital Library. A recorded vote shows each member state's position ⁸.

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Sources

How public commitments are recorded
Where public commitments are officially recorded: parliamentary assurances, written statements, NDC and UN registries, OGP plans and company filings.
Official commitment trackers compared
How India's OAMS, Kenya's and Ghana's committees, the NDC Registry, UN commitment platforms and OGP's reporting mechanism track delivery of promises.
Government assurances committees explained
How committees in India, Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and Uganda record ministers' promises in the House, set deadlines, grant extensions and drop assurances.
UN voting records and later changes of position
How the UN General Assembly and Security Council record votes, what an explanation of vote is, and how later notices about intended votes are shown.
How states withdraw from treaties, and how withdrawals are recorded
Notice periods, depositary records and real cases of withdrawal and rescinded withdrawal under the Paris Agreement, Kyoto Protocol and Rome Statute.