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1 Background  




2 The resolution in few words  




3 The voting in detail  




4 Aftermath  




5 See also  




6 References  













United Nations General Assembly Resolution 498






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UNGeneral Assembly
Resolution 498
DateFebruary 1st 1951
Meeting no.327
CodeA/RES/498 (V) (Document)
SubjectIntervention of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in Korea

Voting summary

  • 44 voted for
  • 7 voted against
  • 9 abstained
    • ResultAdopted
    Part of a series on
    North Korea and
    the United Nations
    United Nations North Korea
    North Korea and the United Nations
  • Permanent Mission of North Korea to the UN
  • UNSC Resolution 702 (membership admission in 1991)
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    • UNSC Sanctions Committee on North Korea
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    • 82 (1950)
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    • UN General Assembly Resolutions:
  • 498 (1951)
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  • 977 (1955)
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  • e

    • The United Nations General Assembly resolution 498 was approved on February 1, 1951, in response to the intervention of Chinese Communist troops in Korean War.

    It was the first time in which United Nations treated a nation as an aggressor.[1]

    Background[edit]

    Poster of 1951 (produced by the American government) allusive to the resolution. The text is in thai. The text in the arrow translates "44 nations condemn red China". The names of the countries that approved the resolution appeared.

    In late 1950, hundreds of thousands of Chinese Communist troops crossed into North Korea to help the troops of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to fight the coalition led by United States and the Republic of Korea.[1]

    The General Assembly vote followed unsuccessful attempts by the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to have the Security Council take action against the Chinese Communists. Exercising his nation's veto power, the Soviet representative on the Security Council consistently blocked the U.S. effort. Turning to the General Assembly, the U.S. delegation called for the United Nations to condemn communist China as an aggressor in Korea.[1]

    The resolution in few words[edit]

    The resolution had 3 main points:

    The voting in detail[edit]

    For

  •  Australia
  •  Belgium
  •  Bolivia
  • Brazil
  •  Canada
  • Chile
  •  China
  •  Colombia
  •  Costa Rica
  •  Cuba
  •  Denmark
  •  Dominican Republic
  •  Ecuador
  •  El Salvador
  •  Ethiopia
  •  France
  •  Greece
  •  Guatemala
  •  Haiti
  •  Honduras
  •  Iceland
  •  Iran
  •  Iraq
  •  Israel
  •  Lebanon
  •  Liberia
  •  Luxembourg
  •  Netherlands
  •  New Zealand
  •  Nicaragua
  •  Norway
  •  Panama
  •  Paraguay
  •  Peru
  • Philippines
  •  Thailand
  •  Turkey
  •  Union of South Africa
  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  •  United States of America
  •  Uruguay
  •  Venezuela

    • Against

  •  Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
  •  Czechoslovakia
  •  India
  •  Poland
  •  Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
  •  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    • Abstentions

  •  Egypt
  •  Indonesia
  •  Pakistan
  •  Saudi Arabia
  •  Sweden
  • Syria
  • Yemen
  •  Yugoslavia

    • [3]

    Aftermath[edit]

    Poster of the time (produced by the American government) allusive to the resolution. In this poster, the number of countries that condemned red China is 53 (which includes the abstaining countries), when the right number is 44.

    The action was largely symbolic, because many nations were reluctant to take more forceful action against the People's Republic of China for fear that the conflict in Korea would escalate. While economic and political sanctions could have been brought against Red China, the United Nations decided to take no further action. The Korean War continued for 2 more years, finally ending in a stalemate and an armistice in 1953.[1]

    See also[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b c d "This day in History: U.N. condemns PRC for aggression". A&E Television Networks. 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  • ^ "A/RES/498 (V)" (PDF). United Nations. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  • ^ "The Question of Korea". Yearbook of the United Nations 1951. New York City: United Nations. 1951. p. 224. OCLC 867230999. Retrieved 2 April 2015.

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