S/PV.4013 Security Council

I should like to inform the Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Portugal, in which they request to be invited to participate in the discussion of the item on the Council’s agenda. In conformity with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite those representatives to participate in the discussion, without the right to vote, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter and rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure. There being no objection, it is so decided.

The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Council is meeting in accordance with the understanding reached in its prior consultations. Members of the Council have before them the report of the Secretary-General on the question of East Timor, document S/1999/595. Members of the Council also have before them document S/1999/666, which contains the text of a draft resolution prepared in the course of the Council’s prior consultations. I should like to draw the attention of the members of the Council to the following documents: S/1999/547, letter dated 11 May 1999 from the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary- General; S/1999/612, letter dated 27 May 1999 from the Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council; and S/1999/652, letter dated 7 June 1999 from the Chargé d’affaires ad interim of the Permanent Mission of Portugal addressed to the Secretary-General and to the President of the Security Council. There being no objection, it is so decided.

There were 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 1246 (1999). The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda.