S/PV.3196 Security Council

Under the agenda item before it, the Security Council will now begin its consideration of the report of the Committee on the Admission of New Members concerning the application for admission to membership in the United Nations contained in document S/25147. In paragraph 3 of the report, the Committee recommends that the Council should have recourse to the provision of the last paragraph of rule 60 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure in order to present its recommendation to the resumed forty-seventh session of the General Assembly, If I hear no objection, I shall take it that the Council wishes to waive the time-limits set forth in the penultimate paragraph of rule 60. There being no objection, it is so decided. In paragraph 4 of the report, the Committee recommends to the Security Council the adoption of a draft resolution on the application of the State whose application is contained in document S/25147 for membership in the United Nations. I should like to congratulate the Committee on its unanimous decision to recommend that the State whose application is contained in document S/25147 be admitted to membership in the United Nations, In accordance with the understanding reached in prior consultations among the members of the Council, I propose that the Council adopt, without a vote, the draft resolution contained in paragraph 4 of the report of the Committee on the Admission of New Members. As I see no objection, it is so decided. I therefore declare that the draft resolution contained in paragraph 4 Of the report of the Committee on the Admission Of New Members (S/25544) has been adopted without a vote as resolution 817 (1993). I shall immediately convey the decision of the Security COUnCil recommending the admission of the State whose application is contained in document S/25147 to membership in the United Nations to the Secretary-General for transmittal to the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions Of rule 60 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council. I will now make a statemeAt in my capacity as President of the Security COUnCil on behalf of the members of the Council. (The President) "The Security Council has just recommended that the State whose application is in document S/25147 be admitted to membership in the United Nations, It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of the members of the Council, I congratulate the State concerned on this historic occasion. The members of the Council look forward to its early admission to the United Nations. "The Council welcomes the initiative taken by the Co-Chairmen of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, at the request of the Secretary-General, in order to set up a mechanism to settle the difference which has arisen over the name of the State, and to promote confidence-building measures among the two parties. The Council attaches the highest importance to implementing as soon as possible the confidence-building measures referred to in the resolution which has just been adopted, The Council expresses the hope that the initiative of the Co-Chairmen will be pursued expeditiously, that both sides will fully cooperate with the Co-Chairmen, that both sides, and all others concerned, will avoid taking steps that would render a solution more difficult, and that both will accept and implement the outcome. A mutually acceptable solution to these matters would be a major contribution to the maintenance of peaceful and good-neighbourly relations in the region. "The Council is clear that the reference in the resolution that has just been adopted to 'the former Yugoslav Republic' carries no implication whatsoever that the State concerned has any connection with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). It merely reflects the historic fact that the State recommended for admission to the United Nations in the present resolution was in the past a republic of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." This statement will be issued as a document of the Security Council under the symbol S/25545. ' The Council has thus concluded its consideration of the matter before it. The meetinu rose at 11.40 a.m.