l should like formally to submit the following proposaI: "That the Security Couneil awaits the receipt of the result of the ballot in the General Assembly before it talces a vote again on this matter."
Without attempting to challenge the ruling of the Chair, l should like to draw the attention of the Council to Article la oi.the Statute of the International Court of Justice, which seems to appLy to this case. It says that those candidates who obtain an absolute majority of votes in the General Ass…
l should like to explain the position of my delegation in regard to the course of action which it is proposed that the Council should take. If the proposai had been put to the vote, my dele- gation, as a party to the dispute, would have abstained under Article 27, paragraph 3, of the Charter.
Rule 8 of the Security Council's rules of procedure provides thaJt "the provi- sional agenda for a meeting shaH he communicated ... at least three days before the meeting", unless the circttl11stances are urgent, in whioh case "it may be communicatecl simultaneously with the notice of the meeting".
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