UN Security Council Resolution 212
 UN Security
Council Resolution 212 |
|
|---|---|
| Date: | September 20, 1965 |
| Meeting: | 1243 |
| Identifier: | S / RES / 279 ( document ) |
|
|
|
| Poll: | Pro: 11 Ent. : 0 Cons: 0 |
| Object: | Admission of the Maldives as a new member to the United Nations |
| Result: | Accepted |
|
|
|
| Composition of the Security Council in 1965: | |
| Permanent members: | |
| Non-permanent members: | |
 BOL CIV JOR 
|
|
 MYS NLD URY 
|
|
.svg){kind=small}
The Resolution 212 of the UN Security Council is a resolution that the United Nations Security Council decided in 1243. Meeting on 20 September 1965th She deals with the application of the Maldives to become a member of the UN. The Security Council recommends that the UN General Assembly accept the Maldives.
poll
The resolution was passed unanimously.
background
During the 1950s and 1960s, Great Britain was in retreat from the area east of the Suez Canal. On July 26, 1965, Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan , (Prime Minister of the Maldives) and Sir Michael Walker, British ambassador as representatives of their heads of state, agreed to end the British protectorate over the Maldives and to give them independence.
Web links
Wikisource: Original text of the resolution - sources and full texts (English)
