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Security Council

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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From its 921st through its 923d meetings the Security Council considered the complaint of the government of Cuba that the United States was planning direct military intervention in Cuba.Mr. Wadsworth, the representative of the United States and the first speaker, deplored the fact that because of continued provocation over nearly a two-year period the United States had been forced to break diplomatic relations with Cuba, and denied as false propaganda the Cuban charges that the United States was contemplating a military attack on Cuba. Mr. Roa, the Cuban representative, stated in his opening remarks that Cuba considered the Security Council the proper organ before which to bring its case, and that his country opposed any effort to transfer the examination of its claim to the Council of the Organization of American States. He charged, inter alia: 1) that United States materials had been air-lifted to counter-revolutionary groups in the Cuban mountains; 2) that United States Embassy officials had been engaged in espionage and in conspiracy with counterrevolutionary elements; 3) that false and harmful propaganda against Cuba was being broadcast from the United States, with the support of the United States government; 4) that mercenaries were being trained at Guantanamo Naval Base, with a view to launching a number of small military expeditions against different points of the island; and 5) that destroyers had been placed on the alert in Key West, ninety miles from Cuba. The ultimate objective of these movements, Mr. Roa added, was a military invasion of his country.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
Information
International Organization , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Spring 1961 , pp. 272 - 279
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1961

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References

1 Document S/4605. For a summary of a previous discussion of Cuban-United States relations by the Security Council, see International Organization, Autumn 1960 (Vol. 14. No. 3), p. 577–578CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Document S/4612.

3 Document S/4S06 and Add.1. For a summary of a previous discussion of the Congo by the Security Council, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 166–170CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Documents S/4614 and S/4616.

5 General Assembly Resolution 1474 (XV), September 20, 1960.

6 See General Assembly Resolution 1579, December 20, 1960.

7 Document S/4625.

8 Document S/4639.

9 Document S/4641.

10 Document S/4644.

11 Documents S/4646, S/4652, S/4654, S/4655, S/4657, S/4659, S/4660, S/4661, S/4664, and S/4665 (Mali, India, Yugoslavia, Indonesia, Belgium, Guinea, Ghana, the Congo (Leopoldville), Morocco, and Poland, respectively).

12 Document S/4688 and Add.1.

13 Documents S/4671, S/4672, S/4675, S/4680, S/4681, S/4685, and S/4692 (the Congo (Brazzaville), Nigeria, Sudan, Malagasy Republic, Gabon, Republic of Cameroun, and Senegal, respectively).

14 Document S/4706.

15 Documents S/4709, S/4710, and S/4711, respectively.

16 See Documents S/4705 and S/4715, respectively.

17 Document S/4691.

18 Document S/4722.

19 Document S/4730.

20 Document S/4733 and Rev.1.

21 Document S/4727 and Adds.1, 2, and 3.

22 Document S/4740.

23 See above, p. 276.

24 See above, p. 277.

25 Document S/4733/Rev.I.

26 Document S/4738.

27 Document S/4760.

28 General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV), December 21, 1960.

29 General Assembly Resolution 1542 (XV), December 21, 1960.

30 See General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), December 14, 1960.

31 Document S/4769.