United Nations Security Council draft resolution S/2688
Date: 1952-07-09 (meeting 590)
Agenda: Question of Request for Investigation of Alleged Bacterial Warfare
Vetoed by: RUSSIA/USSR

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S/2688
3 July 1952
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

DRAFT RESOLUTION SUBMITTED BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT THE 587TH MEETING
OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON 3 JULY 1952
QUESTION OF REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION OF
ALLEGED BACTERIOLOGICAL WARFARE

The Security Council,

Noting the concerted dissemination by certain Governments and authorities
of grave accusations charging the use of bacteriological warfare by United
Nations forces,
Recalling that when the charges were first made the Unified Command for
Korea immediately denied the charges and requested that an impartial
investigation be made of them,
Noting that the Chinese Communist and North Korean authorities failed
to accept an offer by the International Committee of the Red Cross to carry
out such an investigation but continued to give circulation to the charges,
Noting that the World Health Organization offered to assist in combating
any epidemics in North Korea and China, and that the Unified Command for Korea
agreed to co-operate,
Noting with regret that the Chinese Communist and North Korean authorities
rejected the offer and refused to permit the entry of the World Health
Organization teams into territories controlled by these authorities,
Noting that the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
has, in the United Nations, repeated the charges that United Nations forces
were engaging in bacteriological warfare,
Noting that the draft resolution submitted by the Government of the United
States proposing an impartial investigation of these charges by the
International Committee of the Red Cross was rejected by the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics, and that by reason of the negative vote of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics the Security Council was prevented from arranging
for such an impartial investigation,
52-7613
/1. Concludes,
S/2688


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S/2688
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1.  Concludes, from the refusal of those Governments and authorities making
the charges to permit impartial-investigation, that these charges must be
presumed to be without substance and false;
2.  Condemns the practice of fabricating and disseminating such false charges,
which increases tension among nations and which is designed to undermine the
efforts of the United Nations to combat aggression in Korea and the support of
the people of the world for these efforts.


Voting result: 9 yes, 1 no, 1 abstentions
Votes by member:
country: Brazil
vote: Y
country: Chile
vote: Y
country: China
vote: Y
country: France
vote: Y
country: Greece
vote: Y
country: Netherlands
vote: Y
country: Turkey
vote: Y
country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
vote: Y
country: United States of America
vote: Y
country: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
vote: N
country: Pakistan
vote: A