This resolution set up the UN Commission for India and Pakistan (UNCIP) to investigate the dispute between the two countries over Kashmir and exercise “mediatory influence”.
Topics: international peace, international intervention, failure of bilateralism
Establishes UNCIP under the authority of UNSC to act in accordance with UNSC directions to (1) investigate pursuant to Article 34 of the UN Charter and (2) to exercise any mediatory influence likely to smooth away difficulties
Adopted 9-0 with Ukraine and USSR abstaining
January 1948
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