UNITED NATIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS CYPRUS PEACE-KEEPING MANDATE

Record ID: 337272

  • Title: UNITED NATIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS CYPRUS PEACE-KEEPING MANDATE
  • Date: 20th March 1965
  • Summary: 1. TGV SECURITY COUNCIL IN SESSION (SILENT) 0.05 2. CU STEVENSON SPEAKS. SOF BEGINS: "THE COUNCIL CANNOT FAIL......." SOF ENDS ".....BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS." 2.00 3. SV DELEGATES SEATED 2.02 4. SCU PRESIDENT USHER SPEAKS (THROUGH INTERPRETER). SOF BEGINS: "TO VOTE ON THE DRAFT RESOLUTION..." 3.15 5. TV SOF PAUSES AS DELEGATES VOTE BY
  • Embargoed: 4th April 1965 13:00
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  • Location: UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, USA
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVAOR9KMKZDLE6LFOEWDRMK86JV
  • Story Text: THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL YESTERDAY (FRIDAY) FORMALLY EXTENDED THE CYPRUS PEACE-KEEPING MANDATE UNTIL JUNE 26. THE VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS. THE II-NATION COUNCIL ALSO CALLED UPON ALL PARTIES TO THE CONFLICT IN THE ISLAND TO CO-OPERATE FULLY WITH THE U.N. FORCE, AND THEMSELVES "TO ACT WITH THE UTMOST RESTRAINT."
    MR. STEVENSON CALLED ON ALL SIDES IN THE DISPUTE TO COMPROMISE THEIR DIFFERENCES AND RELIEVE THE U.N. OF THE BURDENS AND DANGERS THE CONFLICT HAD IMPOSED.

    (MR. SPYROS KYPRIANOU, THE CYPRUS FOREIGN MINISTER, REPLIED THAT HIS GOVERNMENT COULD NEVER AGREE TO COMPROMISE WITH PRINCIPLE).

    (THE 6,000-MAN U.N. FORCE HAS BEEN ON DUTY IN CYPRUS FOR A YEAR. U THANT, THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL, HAS SAID THAT ITS WITHDRAWAL NOW COULD TRIGGER RENEWED STRIFE).
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