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United Nations Security Council Resolution 255
United Nations resolution adopted in 1968 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United Nations Security Council Resolution 255, adopted on June 19, 1968, after a large number of states began to subscribe to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons the Council recognized that aggression with nuclear weapons or the threat of it against a non-nuclear-weapon state would create a situation in which the Security Council, and above all its nuclear-weapon State members would have to act immediately in accordance with their obligations under the UN Charter.
UN Security Council Resolution 255 | ||||
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Date | June 19 1968 | |||
Meeting no. | 1433 | |||
Code | S/RES/255 (Document) | |||
Subject | Question relating to measures to safeguard non-nuclear-weapon States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons | |||
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Result | Adopted | |||
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The council also welcomed the intention expressed by certain States that they will provide or support immediate assistance to a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the treaty that is a victim of an act or the object of the threat in which nuclear weapons are used and reaffirmed that inherent right of individual and collective self-defense.
The resolution passed with 10 votes to none; Algeria, Brazil, France, India and Pakistan abstained.