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Security Council Resolution 59 (1948) [on Investigation of the Assassination of the Un Mediator in Palestine]

S/RES/59(1948)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the Security Council, published in 1964.

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 topics
AssassinationFreedom of MovementGood OfficesGovernment InvestigationsIsraelIsrael-Arab War (1948-1949)Palestine QuestionStaff SecurityTruce Supervision

What does this mandate say?

13 operative paragraphs
2
Requests that Government to submit to the Security Council at an early date an account of the progress made in the investigation and to indicate therein the measures taken with regard to negligence on the part of officials or other factors affecting the crime;
3
Reminds the Governments and authorities concerned that all the obligations and responsibilities of u The text was voted on in parts.
35 Official Records of the Security Council, Third Year, Supplement for October 1948, document S/1018.
se Ibid., document S/1022.
s1 Ibid., document S/1023.
effective des hostilites est la condition sine qua non des hostilites, on pourrait, semble-t-il, considerer les conditions suivantes comme la base de nouvelles negociations tendant a assurer que Jes hostilites sera pleinement observee dans cette region :
position qu'elles n'occupaient pas au moment de l'ouverture des hostilites ;
convois;
tenant aux Nations Unies, soit directement au sujet presence permanente dans toute la region d'observateurs des Nations Unies34 • >
59 (1948). Resolution du 19 octobre 1948 [S/1045] Le Conseil de securite, relatif aux assassinats du comte Folke Bernadotte, Serot, obsen,ateur des Nations Unies, survenus le
J erusalem37 , provisoire d'lsrael n'a, jusqu'a present, soumis aucun rapport au Conseil de securite OU au Mediateur par interim au sujet des progres accomplis en ce qui concerne l'enquete sur les assassinats ;
2
Invite ledit Gouvemement a rendre compte a bref delai, au Conseil de securite, des progres
rendus coupables des fonctionnaires ou tous autres
3
Rappelle aux gouvernements et autorites inte-
~parement.
s11 Proces-verbaux officiels du Conseil de securite, troisieme annee, Supplement d'octobre 1948, document S/1018.
se Ibid., document S/1022.
s1 Ibid., document S/1023.
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the parties set forth in its resolutions 54 ( 1948) of 15 July and 56 (1948) of 19 August 1948 are to be discharged fully and in good faith ;
4
Reminds the Acting Mediator of the desirability of an equitable distribution of the United Nations observers for the purpose of observing the truce on the territories of both parties ;
5
Determines, pursuant to its resolutions 54 (1948) and 56 (1948), that the Governments and authorities have the duty :
a
To allow duly accredited United Nations observers and other truce supervision personnel bearing proper credentials, on official notification, ready access to all places where their duties require them to go including airfields, ports, truce lines and strategic points and areas ;
b
To facilitate the freedom of movement of truce supervision personnel and transport by simplifying procedures on United Nations aircraft now in effect, and by assurance of safe-conduct for all United Nations aircraft and other means of transport;
c
To co-operate fully with the truce supervision personnel in their conduct of investigations into incidents involving alleged breaches of the truce, including the making available of witnesses, testimony and other evidence on request ;
d
To implement fully by appropriate and prompt instructions to the commanders in the field all agreements entered into through the good offices of the Mediator or his representatives ;
e
To take all reasonable measures to ensure the safety and safe-conduct of the truce supervision personnel and the representatives of the Mediator, their aircraft and vehicles, while in territory under their control;
f
To make every effort to apprehend and promptly punish any and all persons within their jurisdictions guilty of any assault upon or other aggressive act against the truce supervision personnel or the representatives of the Mediator.

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