United Nations Security Council Resolution 19

UN Security Council Resolution 19
Date	February 27 1947
Meeting no.	114
Code	S/RES/19 (Document)
Subject	The Corfu Channel incidents
Voting summary	8 voted for None voted against 3 abstained
Result	Adopted
Security Council composition
Permanent members	China France Soviet Union United Kingdom United States
Non-permanent members	Australia Belgium Brazil Colombia Poland Syria
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 19, adopted on February 27, 1947, created a sub-committee of three members to examine all the facts involved in the dispute between the United Kingdom and Albania over the Corfu Channel incident and to make a report to the Council no later than March 10, 1947. Two British vessels were sunk by mines in the Straits on October 22, 1946.

The resolution passed with 8 votes, with three abstentions from Poland, the Soviet Union and Syria.

See also

• List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1 to 100 (1946–1953)
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 22

References

• Text of the Resolution at undocs.org

External links

• Works related to United Nations Security Council Resolution 19 at Wikisource