TELEGRAM FROM SYRIAN PREMIER AND MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS

TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

Dated 19 May 1946

19 May 1946.    ETAT SYRIE.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECURITY COÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµCIL NEW YORK.

AT THE 23RD SITTING OF THE SECURITY COÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµCIL HELD AT LONDON ON SATURDAY THE 16TH FEBRUARY 1946 FOR DISCUSSING THE QUESTION OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN TROOPS FROM THE SYRIAN AND LEBANESE TERRITORIES THE Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTED TO THE COÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµCIL THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION THE SECURITY COÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµCIL TAKING NOTE OF STATEMENTS MADE BY THE FOUR PARTIES AND BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµCIL EXPRESSES ITS CONFIDENCE THAT FOREIGN TROOPS IN SYRIA AND LEBANON WILL BE WITHDRAWN AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE AND THAT NEGOTIATIONS TO THAT END WILL BE Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµDERTAKEN BY PARTIES WITHOUT DELAY AND REQUESTS PARTIES TO INFORM IT OF THE RESULTS OF THE NEGOTIATIONS ALTHOUGH THIS RESOLUTION HAD NO LEGAL VALIDITY IN VIEW OF PARAGRAPH 3 OF THE 27TH ARTICLE OF THE CHARTER IT GOT THE APPROVAL OF THE MAJORITY  OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY COÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµCIL AMONG WHOM WERE THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE WHO Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµDERTOOK TO GIVE EFFECT TO IT THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT HAVE THE HONOUR TO INFORM THE MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY COÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµCIL THAT THE EVACUATION OF THE FOREIGN TROOPS TO THE SYRIAN TERRITORY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROPOSAL OF THE DELEGATE OF THE Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED DURING THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF APRIL 1946.

SAADALLAH EL JABIRI  PREMIER AND MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

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Document Type: Telegram
Document Sources: Secretary-General, Security Council
Country: Lebanon, Syria, United States of America
Subject: Peacekeeping
Publication Date: 19/05/1946