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U.N. Security Council Action with Regard to Southern Rhodesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

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International Legal Materials , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , May 1970 , pp. 636 - 644
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1970

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* [On March 2, 1970, the proclamation of republican status was signed in Salisbury, Rhodesia.

[On March 18, 1970, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 277 (1970) condemning the " illegal proclamation of republican status. "The Council took this action by adopting a revised proposal, submitted by Finland, by a vote of 14 in favor to none against , with 1 abstention - Spain. Two other proposals, submitted by the United Kingdom and by five African and Asian States, were rejected by the Council on March 17. These draft resolutions appear at page 641.

[U.N. Security Council Resolutions 216 and 217 (1965) appear at 5 International Legal Materials 167 (1966); Resolution 221 (1966) at 5 International Legal Materials 534 (1966); Resolution 232 (1966) at 6 International Legal Materials 141 (1967); and Resolution 253 (1968) at 7 International Legal Materials 897 (1968).]

* [The United Kingdom draft resolution was rejected by the Council on March 17, 1970, by a vote of 5 in favor (China, Prance, Nicaragua, United Kingdom, United States ) to none against , with 10 abstentions.]

* [The draft resolution , sponsored by Burundi, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Syria, and Zambia, was put to a vote as a whole minus operative paragraphs 8 and 9 which had been rejected in separate votes. The draft resolution was rejected on March 17, 1970, by a vote of 9 in favor (Burundi, China, Nepal, Poland, Sierra Leone, Spain, Syria, U.S.S.R., Zambia), to 2 against (United Kingdom, United States ) , with 4 abstentions (Colombia, Finland, France, Nicaragua). This vote marked the first use of the veto by the United States.]

* [This is the corrected t e x t of paragraph 3, as contained in S/9696/Corr.2 of March 13, 1970.]

* [This is the corrected text of paragraph 7, as contained in S/9696/Corr.1 of March 12, 1970.]