UN Security Council
1976

exercise the utmost restraint in the present situation: 2. Urges the Governments of Greece and Turkey to do everything in their power to reduce the present tensions in the area so that the negotiating process may be faciliated: 3. Calls upon the Governments of Greece and Turkey to resume direct negotiations over their differences and appeals to them to do everything within their power to ensure that these negotiations will result in mutually acceptable solutions; 4. Invites the Governments of Greece and Turkey in this respect to continue to take into account the contribution that appropriate judicial means, in particular the International Court of Justice, are qualified to make to the settlement of any remaining legal differences which they may identify in connexion with their present dispute. Adopted at the 1953rd meeting by consensus. 54 Ibid., document S/12167. 55 Ibid., Thirty-first Year, 1949th meeting. 56 Ibid., 1950th meeting.