{"id":182873,"date":"1955-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=182873"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:27:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:27:02","slug":"auto-insert-182873","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-182873\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Tiberias area – SecCo condemns Israel’s attack of 11 December 1955 as flagrant cease-fire violation – SecCo resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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111 (1956).  Resolution of 19 January 1956<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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[S\/3538]<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>The Security Council,<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Recalling<\/i><\/span> its resolutions <\/span>54 (1948) of 15 July 1948<\/a>, 73 (1949) of 11 August 1949, 93 (1951) of 18 May 1951,  101  (1953) of 24 November 1953 and 106 (1955) of 29 March 1955,<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Taking into consideration<\/i> the statements of the representatives of Syria and Israel and the reports of the Chief of Staff of the Â鶹APP Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine on the Syrian complaint that an attack was committed by Israel regular army forces against Syrian regular army forces on Syrian territory on 11 December 1955,<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Noting <\/i>that, according to the report of the Chief of Staff, this Israel action was a deliberate violation of the provisions of the General Armistice Agreement between Israel and Syria,2<\/u>\/ including those relating to the demilitarized zone, which was crossed by the Israel forces which entered Syria,<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Noting a<\/i>lso<\/i>,<\/i>without prejudice to the ultimate rights, claims and positions of the parties, that according to the reports of the Chief of Staff there has been interference by the Syrian authorities with Israel activities on Lake Tiberias, in contravention of the terms of the General Armistice Agreement between Israel and Syria,<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>1.\t<\/span>Holds<\/i> that this interference in no way justifies the Israel action;<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>2.\t<\/span>Reminds<\/i> the Government of Israel that the Council has already condemned military action in breach of the General Armistice Agreements, whether or not undertaken by way of retaliation, and has called upon Israel to take effective measures to prevent such actions;<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>3.\t<\/span>Condemns <\/i>the attack of 11 December 1955 as a flagrant violation of the cease-fire provisions of its resolution 54 (1948), of the terms of the General Armistice Agreement between Israel and Syria, and of Israel's obligations under the Charter of the Â鶹APP;<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>4.\t<\/span>Expresses its grave concern<\/i> at the failure of the Government of Israel to comply with its obligations;<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>5.\t<\/span>Calls upon the Government of Israel to do so in the future, in default of which the Council will have to consider what further measures under the Charter are required to maintain or restore the peace;<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>6.\t<\/span>Calls upon<\/i> the parties to comply with their obligations under article V of the General Armistice Agreement to respect the armistice demarcation line and the demilitarized zone;<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>7.\t<\/span>Requests<\/i> the Chief of Staff to pursue his suggestions for improving the situation in the area of Lake Tiberias without prejudice to the rights, claims and positions of the parties and to report to the Council as appropriate on the success of his efforts;<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>8.\t<\/span>Calls upon<\/i> the parties to arrange with the Chief of Staff for an immediate exchange of all military prisoners;<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>9.\t<\/span>Calls upon<\/i> both parties to co-operate with the Chief of Staff in this and all other respects, to carry out the provisions of the General Armistice Agreement in good faith, and in particular to make full use of the Mixed Armistice Commission's machinery in the interpretation and application of its provisions.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Adopted unanimously at the 715th meeting.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>1<\/u>\/\t<\/span>Official Records of the Security Council, Tenth year, Supplement for October, November and December 1955,<\/i> documents S\/3516 and Add.1.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>2<\/u>\/\t<\/span>Ibid., Fourth Year Special Supplement No. 2.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

111 (1956).  Resolution of 19 January 1956 [S\/3538] The Security Council, Recalling its resolutions 54 (1948) of 15 July 1948, 73 (1949) of 11 August 1949, 93 (1951) of 18 May 1951,  101  (1953) of 24 November 1953 and 106 (1955) of 29 March 1955, Taking into consideration the statements of the representatives of Syria and Israel and the reports […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897,2241],"document-category":[1326,4565],"document-source":[1362,3853],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,2265,1813,2181,1749,1905,1929],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-182873","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","country-syria","document-category-resolution","document-category-security-council-resolution","document-source-security-council","document-source-united-nations-truce-supervision-organization-untso","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-ceasefire","document-subject-middle-east-situation","document-subject-negotiations-and-agreements","document-subject-palestine-question","document-subject-peace-proposals-and-efforts","document-subject-peacekeeping","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/182873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/182873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=182873"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=182873"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=182873"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=182873"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=182873"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=182873"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=182873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}