Mideast situation/Admission of Jordan to UN – Vetoed draft resolution

Distr.
GENERAL

S/3502
10 December 1955

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

ADMISSION OF NEW MEMBERS

Brazil and New Zealand: draft resolution

The Security Council,

Noting resolution A/RES/357 adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 1955 in which the Security Council was requested “to consider in the light of the general opinion in favour of the widest possible membership of the United Nations the pending applications for membership of all those eighteen countries about which no problem of unification arises”,

Having considered separately the applications for membership of Albania, the Mongolian People’s Republic, Jordan, Ireland, Portugal, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Roumania, Bulgaria, Finland, Ceylon, Nepal, Libya, Cambodia, Japan, Laos and Spain,

Recommends to the General Assembly the admission of the above-named countries.

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The Security Council on 13 December 1955 voted on the draft resolution as follows:

In favour: Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Iran, New Zealand, Peru, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America.

Against: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.


Document symbol: S/3502
Document Type: Draft resolution, Vetoed draft resolution
Document Sources: Security Council
Country: Jordan, Soviet Union
Subject: Middle East situation, Peace proposals and efforts
Publication Date: 13/12/1955
2019-03-11T21:22:37-04:00

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