UN Security Council Resolution 350

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The United Nations Security Council Resolution 350 was on 31 May 1974 at the 1773 meeting of the UN Security Council adopted unanimously, with China and Iraq abstained from voting. With the resolution , the Security Council decided to set up an observer mission to monitor the separation agreement between Israel and Syria .

The disengagement agreement was signed on May 31, 1974 in Geneva . The agreement called on the United Nations to deploy the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). The then Secretary-General of the United Nations therefore proposed that the Security Council decide to deploy such a force and take the necessary steps to fulfill the agreement.

Syria and Israel had undertaken in the agreement to withdraw from a certain zone along the front . These zones were delimited by lines A and B. Only UNDOF military personnel should be stationed between the two lines, some of which are only a few hundred meters apart, others up to eight kilometers. Israel had to withdraw to the area west of line A and Syria to the east of line B. To the west and east of the respective lines, certain types of weapons were excluded in two different zones and the number of soldiers, guns and tanks were limited.

There was a deviation at Quneitra , where Israeli troops had to stay behind a line A 1 further to the west, because the place is practically directly on line A.

Syrian civilians were only allowed to stay east of Line A.

The UNDOF mission is responsible for monitoring compliance with this unbundling.

In addition, both sides have agreed to exchange the wounded and prisoners of war and subsequently also the dead.

Israel and Syria agreed in an additional protocol that the UNDOF troops are subject to Syrian laws, can move freely within the framework of the mission and use facilities that are necessary to carry out the mission. The UN observers are equipped with defensive weapons, which are only intended to be used for self-defense . In addition, the strength of the mission was set at around 1,250 men.

With Resolution 350, the UN Security Council then instructed the Secretary General to take the steps he proposed and also requested that he be kept informed of further developments.

The UNDOF was subsequently stationed between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria. The resolution provided for an initial six-month mandate for the observation force, which was subsequently repeatedly extended. UNDOF is one of the United Nations' oldest active peacekeeping missions .

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