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Security Council Resolution 89, adopted on November 17, 1950, after receiving complaints from

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and the Chief of Staff of the

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regarding the implementation of the Armistice Agreements designed to end the

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the Council requested the Egypt-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission give urgent attention to a complaint of expulsion of thousands of Palestinian Arabs. The Council called upon both parties to give effect to any finding by the Commission, repatriating any such Arabs who the Commission believes to be entitled to return. The Council then authorized the Chief of Staff of the Truce Supervision Organization to recommend to Israel, Egypt and such other Arab States appropriate steps he may consider necessary to control the movement of nomadic Arabs across international frontiers or armistice lines by mutual agreement. The Council called upon the governments concern to take no action involving the transfer of persons across international frontiers or armistice lines without prior consultation through the Commissions. The Council then requested that the Chief of Staff of the Truce Supervision Organization report to them at the end of ninety days, or before he deems it necessary on the compliance given to this resolution and upon the status of the operations of the various Commissions. The Council finally requested that he periodically submit to the Security Council reports of all the decisions made by the various Commissions and of the Special Committee provided for in article X, paragraph 4, of the Egyptian-Israel General Armistice Agreement. The resolution passed with nine votes to none, with two abstentions from the Kingdom of Egypt and the

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References

Text of the Resolution at undocs.org

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* {{Authority control 0089 0089 1950 in Egypt 1948 Arab–Israeli War 0089 0089 1950 in Israel 1950 in Jordan November 1950 events United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning Palestine

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