United Nations Security Council draft resolution S/16077/Rev.1
Date: 1983-10-27 (meeting 2491)
Agenda: The situation in Grenada
Vetoed by: USA

UNITED
NATIONS

Security Council
Distr.
GENERAL

S/16077/Rev.1
27 October 1983

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

Guyana, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe: revised draft resolution

The Security Council,

Having heard the statements made in connection with the situation in Grenada,

Recalling the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning
Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States,

Recalling also the principles concerning the inadmissibility of intervention
and interference in the internal affairs of States,

Reaffirming the sovereign and inalienable right of Grenada freely to determine
its own political, economic and social system, and to develop its international
relations without outside intervention, interference, subversion, coercion or
threat in any form whatsoever,

Deeply deploring the events in Grenada which led to the killing of the Prime
Minister, Mr. Maurice Bishop, and other prominent Grenadians,

Bearing in mind that, in accordance with Article 2, paragraph 4, of the
Charter of the United Nations, all Member States are obliged to refrain in their
international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial
integrity or political independence of any State or to act in any other manner
inconsistent with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations,

Gravely concerned at the military intervention taking place and determined to
ensure a speedy return to normalcy in Grenada,

Conscious of the need for States to show consistent respect for the principles
of the Charter of the United Nations,

1. Deeply deplores the armed intervention in Grenada, which constitutes a
flagrant violation of international law and of the independence, sovereignty and
territorial integrity of that State,

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2. Deplores the death of innocent civilians resulting from the armed
intervention;

3. Calls on all States to show strictest respect for the sovereignty,
independence and territorial integrity of Grenada;

4. Calls for an immediate cessation of the armed intervention and the
immediate withdrawal of the foreign troops from Grenada;

5. Requests the Secretary-General to follow closely the development of the
situation in Grenada and to report to the Council within forty-eight hours on the
implementation of this resolution.

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Voting result: 11 yes, 1 no, 3 abstentions
Votes by member:
country: China
vote: Y
country: France
vote: Y
country: Guyana
vote: Y
country: Jordan
vote: Y
country: Malta
vote: Y
country: Netherlands
vote: Y
country: Nicaragua
vote: Y
country: Pakistan
vote: Y
country: Poland
vote: Y
country: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
vote: Y
country: Zimbabwe
vote: Y
country: United States of America
vote: N
country: Togo
vote: A
country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
vote: A
country: Zaire
vote: A