United Nations Security Council draft resolution S/8761
Date: 1968-08-22 (meeting 1443)
Agenda: Letter dated 21 August 1968 from the representatives of Canada, Denmark, France, Paraguay, the United Kingdom and the United States addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/8758)
Vetoed by: RUSSIA/USSR

UNITED NATIONS
SECURITY
COUNCIL
Distr.
GENERAL
S/8761
22 August 1968
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Paraguay, the United Kingdom
and the United States of America: draft resolution

The Security Council,
Recalling that the United Nations is based on the principle of the
sovereign equality of all its Members,
Gravely concerned that, as announced by the Presidium of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, troops of the Soviet Union
and other members of the Warsaw Pact have entered their country without the
knowledge and against the wishes of the Czechoslovakian Government,
Considering that the action taken by the Government of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics and other members of the Warsaw Pact in invading the
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic is a violation of the United Nations Charter and,
in particular, of the principle that all Members shall refrain in their
international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial
integrity or political independence of any State,
Gravely concerned also by risks of violence and reprisals as well as by
threats to individual liberty and human rights which cannot fail to result
from imposed military occupation,
Considering that the people of the sovereign State of the Czechoslovak
Socialist Republic have the right in accordance with the Charter freely to
exercise their own self-determination and to arrange their own affairs without
external intervention,
1. Affirms that the sovereign, political independence and territorial
integrity of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic must be fully respected,
2. Condemns the armed intervention of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics and other members of the Warsaw Pact in the internal affairs of the

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Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and calls upon them to take no action of violence
or reprisal that could result in further suffering or loss of life, forthwith
to withdraw their forces, and to cease all other forms of intervention in
Czechoslovakia's internal affairs;
3.  Calls upon Member States of the United Nations to exercise their
diplomatic influence upon the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the other
countries concerned with a view to bringing about prompt implementation of this
resolution;
4.  Requests the Secretary-General to transmit this resolution to the
countries concerned, to keep the situation under constant review, and to report
to the Council on compliance with this resolution.


Voting result: 10 yes, 2 no, 3 abstentions
Votes by member:
country: Algeria
vote: A
country: Brazil
vote: Y
country: Canada
vote: Y
country: China
vote: Y
country: Denmark
vote: Y
country: Ethiopia
vote: Y
country: France
vote: Y
country: Hungary
vote: N
country: India
vote: A
country: Pakistan
vote: A
country: Paraguay
vote: Y
country: Senegal
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