United Nations Security Council draft resolution S/3236/Rev.1
Date: 1954-06-20 (meeting 675)
Agenda: Cablegram dated 19 June 1954 from the Minister for External Relations of Guatemala addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/3232)
Vetoed by: RUSSIA/USSR

UNITED NATIONS
SECURITY
COUNCIL
GENERAL
S/3236/Rev.1
20 June 1954
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH/
FRENCH
LETTER DATED 19 JUNE 1954 FROM THE MINISTER
OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF GUATEMALA ADDRESSED TO
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL

Brazil and Colombia: Revised draft resolution
incorporating amendment submitted by France

THE SECURITY COUNCIL
HAVING CONSIDERED on an urgent basis the communication of the Government
of Guatemala to the President of the Security Council (S/3232);
NOTING that the Government of Guatemala has dispatched a similar
communication to the Inter-American Peace Committee, an agency of the
Organization of American States;
HAVING IN MIND the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the
United Nations;
CONSCIOUS of the availability of Inter-American machinery which can
deal effectively with problems concerning the maintenance of peace and
security in the Americas;
REFERS the complaint of the Government of Guatemala to the Organization
of American States for urgent consideration;
REQUESTS the Organization of American States to inform the Security
Council as soon as possible, as appropriate, on the measures it has
been able to take on the matter;
Without prejudice to such measures as the Organization of American
States may take, CALLS FOR the immediate termination of any action likely
to cause bloodshed and requests all Members of the United Nations to abstain,
in the spirit of the Charter, from giving assistance to any such action,

54-17618


Voting result: 10 yes, 1 no, 0 abstentions
Votes by member:
country: Brazil
vote: Y
country: China
vote: Y
country: Colombia
vote: Y
country: Denmark
vote: Y
country: France
vote: Y
country: Lebanon
vote: Y
country: New Zealand
vote: Y
country: Turkey
vote: Y
country: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
vote: N
country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
vote: Y
country: United States of America
vote: Y