UN General Assembly
1974

196. The Secretary-General, as well as other speakers, expressed these same apprehensions at the 1793rd meeting of the Security Council on 15 August last, when, after resumption of their aggression in Cyprus, Turkish troops deliberately attacked some units of UNFICYP and killed and wounded several of its members. 197. In this connexion, we feel obliged to state that the "credibility of the United Nations . . . and the respect of its Members for the decisions of its main organs -to use the words of the Secretary- General- cannot be saved by resolutions such as Security Council resolution 359 (1974), by which the Council "Deeply deplores the fact that members of the United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus have been killed and wounded". This shyness on the part of the Council in regard to naming the aggressor cannot but entail in the long run an encouragement to other potential aggressors towards perpetrating such crimes and violating the Security Council resolutions.