United Nations Security Council draft resolution S/3502
Date: 1955-12-13 (meeting 704)
Agenda: Admission of new Members
Vetoed by: RUSSIA/USSR

UNITED NATIONS
SECURITY
COUNCIL
Distr.
GENERAL
S/3502
10 December 1955
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

ADMISSION OF NEW MEMBERS
Brazil and New Zealand: draft resolution

The Security Council,

Noting resolution A/RES/357 adopted by the General Assembly on
8 December 1955 in which the Security Council was requested "to consider in
the light of the general opinion in favour of the widest possible membership
of the United Nations the pending applications for membership of all those
eighteen countries about which no problem of unification arises",

Having considered separately the applications for membership of Albania,
the Mongolian People's Republic, Jordan, Ireland, Portugal, Hungary, Italy,
Austria, Roumania, Bulgaria, Finland, Ceylon, Nepal, Libya, Cambodia, Japan,
Laos and Spain,

Recommends to the General Assembly the admission of the above-named
countries,

-30944


Voting result: 2 yes, 2 no, 7 abstentions
Votes by member:
country: Belgium
vote: A
country: Brazil
vote: Y
country: China
vote: A
country: France
vote: A
country: Iran
vote: A
country: New Zealand
vote: A
country: Peru
vote: N
country: Turkey
vote: N
country: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
vote: Y
country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
vote: A
country: United States of America
vote: A