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(b) If it is proposed that the Council should participate with full rights, including the right to vote, the delegation should abstain in any vote on the proposal. The delegation should not,
If the however, itself raise the question of voting rights. Council should participate in a vote without the question of their right to do so having been raised beforehand, it should confine itself to a statement of explanation after the vote.
(c) If it is proposed that the Council be accorded full membership of an international organisation, or the right to become a party to an international agreement, the delegation should refer for instructions, giving as full a picture as possible of the voting intentions of others (particularly the Nine, the USA and Canada).
UN Council's Decree on National Resources of Namibia
6. In September 1974 the UN Council for Namibia adopted a Decree prohibiting the exploitation of Namibia's natural resources. If the subject is raised the delegation should draw on the following: first, since HMG do not accept the Council as the legal administering authority of Namibia, they cannot regard
Secondly, only the UN the Decree as having any legal validity. Security Council can impose obligations on the international community, and then only after a determination under Chapter VII of the UN Charter that there exists a threat to the peace, breach
Such a determination has not of the peace or act of aggression. been made in the case of Namibia.
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