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Under Article 23 of the United Nations Charter, the Security Council was to be composed of representatives of five permanent Members — China, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union — plus six non-permanent Members elected by the General Assembly. The election at the First Part of the First Session of the General Assembly of Egypt, Mexico, and the Netherlands for one year terms, and Australia, Brazil, and Poland for two year terms, enabled the Security Council to convene for its first meeting on January 18, 1946, at Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, in London. The first 23 meetings were held in London, and the balance of 87 for the period under review either at Hunter College in New York or at Lake Success on Long Island. The first President of the Council was Mr. N. J. 0. Makin (Australia) who held office for one month, and was followed for similar periods by the representatives of the other states members in alphabetical order of the names of their countries in English.

This issue covers the work of the Security Council from the 471st meeting on April 12, 1950to the 478th meeting on July 31, 1950. During this period the representative of the Soviet Union did not participate in the meetings of the Council, although it was announced at the end of July that he would take over his presidency for the month of August.

The following summary covers the activities of the Security Council from its 605th on October 10, 1952, through the 611th meeting on December 23, in addition to unofficial information concerning closed meetings of the Council in March 1953, to consider a recommendation for Secretary-General. During this period, the following representatives were chairmen of the Council: October, Chile (Santa Cruz); November, China (Tsiang); December, France (Hoppenot); January, Greece (Kyrou); February, Lebanon (Malik); and March, Pakistan (Bokhari).

At the 845th meeting of the Security Council, held at headquarters on January 30, 1959, a discussion of the Palestine question in terms of a letter dated January 26, from the permanent representative of Israel to the UN, began with statements by the parties concerned. The special meeting had been convened by die President of the Council in response to a request from the government of Israel.

The Security Council convened on July 25, 1966, to consider this question following a request contained in a letter dated July 21, 1966, from the permanent representative of Syria. A letter dated July 22, 1966, was subsequently received from the permanent representative of Israel. The Council devoted its 1288th–1295th meetings, held on July 25–August 3, to this matter. At the invitation of the President representatives of Iraq, Israel, and Syria were invited to take places at the Council table.

Pursuant to a letter of September 8 from the United States, the Security Council convened for its 679th and 680th meetings on September 10, 1954, to consider the Soviet–United States controversy concerning the shooting down of a United States military aircraft. The United States letter stated that one of its naval aircraft, on a peaceful mission, was attacked and shot down without warning by two Soviet aircraft over international waters. A Soviet communication to the Security Council on September 10 stated that the United States military aircraft was in Soviet air space one hundred miles east of Vladivostok when spotted by two Soviet fighters. Upon attempting to warn the United States aircraft that it was violating Soviet territory and attempting to advise it to leave Soviet air space, the United States aircraft fired without provocation on the two Soviet aircraft. The Soviet aircraft returned fire and the United States aircraft disappeared, its fate unknown.

The following summary covers the activities of the Security Council at its 806th meeting and from its 809th to its 826th meeting. At the 809th meeting three new members, Canada, Japan, and Panama, were welcomed, and thee retiring members, the Philippines, Australia, and Cuba, were paid tribute for their services.

The Security Council held two meetings (1140th and 1141st) on August 5 and 7, 1964, to discuss a complaint of the United States government against the government of North Vietnam, which was expressed in a letter dated August 4, 1964, from the permanent representative of the United States addressed to the President of the Security Council. At the outset of the 1140th meeting on August 5, 1964, Mr. Morozov (Soviet Union) explained that he had requested the postponement of the meeting until August 6 to permit his delegation to receive necessary instructions from its government. With regard to this request, Mr. Stevenson (United States) pointed out that the UN Charter explicitly called for immediate reporting to the Council of measures taken by Members in the exercise of their right of self-defense. If the Council wished to adjourn after hearing the statement of the United States delegation, Mr. Stevenson had no objection. Mr. Hajek (Czechoslovakia) also opposed convening the meeting on August 5 on the grounds that Council members did not possess all the facts and views of the parties. To deliberate on the question on the basis of one version would not, he felt, serve the interests of the Council. Moreover, he did not feel that the circumstances constituted an emergency: The United States did not appear to be immediately threatened.

This issue covers the work of the Security Council from its 569th meeting on December 19, 1951 to its 572nd meeting on January 31, 1952. During December the President of the Council was the representative of Ecuador (Quevedo) and during January, the representative of France (Chauvel). While the India-Pakistan question was being discussed the representative of India was present'at the meetings. In addition to its other work the Council officially terminated the Conventional Armaments Commission in view of the Assembly's sixth session decision to establish a Disarmament Commission.

The Security Council met on October 24, 1967, in its 1369th meeting at the request of the United Arab Republic1 and Israel to discuss the situation in the Middle East. The question was debated at the 1369th–137ist meetings, October 24–25. Representatives of the United Arab Republic, Israel, Jordan, and Syria were invited to take part in the discussions without the right to vote.

The Security Council convened on November 16, 1964, at the request of Syria and Israel to consider the outbreak of hostilities the border between the two countries on November 13. The Council devoted its 1162nd, 1164th-! 169th, 1179th, and 1182nd meetings, held on November 16, November 27-December 8, December 17, and December 21, 1964, respectively, to the discussion of this question. The Council also had before it a letter of November 14, 1964, from the representative of Israel describing the border clash.2 At the invitation of the President, Michael S. Comay (Israel) and Rafik Asha (Syria) took places at the Council table to participate without vote in the Council's deliberations.

This issue covers the work of the Security Council from its 549th meeting on July 26 to its 558th meeting on September 1, 1951. During July the President of the Council was the representative of the United Kingdom, Sir Gladwyn Jebb; during August, Warren R. Austin, representative of the United States; and during September, Ales Bebler, representative of Yugoslavia. The 554th meeting and the 557th meetings, devoted to discussion of the Council's report to the General Assembly, were held in private. During debate on the Palestine question the representatives of Israel, Egypt and Iraq were invited to participate without vote in Council proceedings

This issue covers the work of the Security Council from its 541st meeting on April 17, 1951 to its 548th meeting on May 29th. The President during April was the representative of the Netherlands (Balluseck) and during May the representative of Turkey (Sarper). During discussion of the Israeli-Syrian dispute representatives of those countries as well as Major-General William R. Riley, Chief of Staff, Truce Supervision Organization, were invited to the Council table. During discussion of the India-Pakistan question the representative of Pakistan participated in the discussion.

The question of the threat to Thailand was discussed by the Security Council at its 673d and 674th meetings. After again explaining the reasons for his government's belief that the condition of tension in the general region in which Thailand was located would, if continued, endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, the Thai representative, Pote Sarasin, again requested that the Peace Observation Commission establish a sub-commission of from three to five members to dispatch observers to Thailand and to visit Thailand itself if it were deemed necessary. The Thai draft differed from earlier Thai proposals, however, in that the original mandate of the sub-commission applie only to the territory of Thailand; if the sub-commission felt that it could not adequately accomplish its mission without observation or visit in states contiguous to Thailand, the Peace Observation Commission or the Security Council could issue the necessary instructions. Representatives of New Zealand, Turkey, Brazil, China, the United Kingdom, the United States, Denmark, Colombia and France spoke in support of the Thai draft. They denied, as had been alleged by the Soviet representative (Tsarapkin) at an earlier meeting, that Council consideration or action on this question would be detrimental to the success of the negotiations between the Foreign Ministers of the United States, United Kingdom, France, Chinese People's Republic, Soviet Union and other states in Geneva. While agreeing that it would be impropitious for the Council to consider directly the situation in Indochina as long as it was being discussed in Geneva, they argued that the question raised by Thailand was quite separate and that the Council had a duty to comply with the Thai request.

On March 30, 1960, the 851st meeting of the Security Council convened to consider a 29-nation request1 that the Council discuss the situation arising out of the largescale killing of unarmedand peaceful demonstrators against racial segregation in the Union of South Africa as a threatto the maintenance of international peace and security. The representative of the Union of South Africa, as well as those of India, Ethiopia, Ghana, Pakistan, Guinea, and Liberia were invited to participate without vote in the proceedings. After the adoption of the agenda, reservations regarding the jurisdiction of the Council with respect to the question before it were expressed by the representatives of the United Kingdom and France, who maintained that nothing in the Charter authorized the UN to intervene in matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of a state.