United Nations Security Council Resolution 79, adopted on January 17, 1950, having received and the text of
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 300
United may refer to:
Places
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concerning the
regulation and general reduction of
conventional armaments and armed forces, the Council decided to transmit the resolution to the
Commission for Conventional Armaments The United Nations Commission on Conventional Armaments was founded as a result of the founding United Nations treaty in 1946. The goal of the commission was to find ways to reduce the size of non-nuclear armaments around the world. The Commission w ...
for further study in accordance with the Commission’s plan of work.
The resolution was adopted with nine votes.
Yugoslavia was present but did not vote, and the
Soviet Union was absent.
See also
*
List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1 to 100 (1946–1953)
References
Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
External links
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Arms control
January 1950 events