Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Africa and South Asia, Volume XI, Part 2

Resolution Adopted by the United Nations Security Council on December 23, 1952¹

December 23, 1952

The Security Council

Recalling its resolutions of 30 March 1951, 30 April 1951, and 10 November 1951;

Further recalling the provisions of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan resolutions of 13 August 1948 and 5 January 1949 which were accepted by the Governments of India and Pakistan and which provided that the question of the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to India or Pakistan will be decided through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations;

Having received the Third Report dated 22 April 1952 and the Fourth Report dated 16 September 1952 of the United Nations Representative for India and Pakistan;

Endorses the general principles on which the United Nations Representative has sought to bring about agreement between the Governments of India and Pakistan;

Notes with gratification that the United Nations Representative has reported that the Governments of India and Pakistan have accepted all but two of the paragraphs of his twelve point proposals;

Notes that agreement on a plan of demilitarization of the State of Jammu and Kashmir has not been reached because the Governments of India and Pakistan have not agreed on the whole of paragraph 7 of the twelve point proposals;

Urges the Governments of India and Pakistan to enter into immediate negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations Representative for India and Pakistan in order to reach agreement on the specific number of forces to remain on each side of the cease fire line at the end of the period of demilitarization, this number to be between 3,000 and 6,000 armed forces remaining on the Pakistan side of the cease fire line and between 12,000 and 18,000 armed forces remaining on the India side of the cease fire line, as suggested by the United Nations Representative in his proposals of 16 July 1952 (Annex III of S/2783) such specific numbers to be arrived at bearing in mind the principles of criteria contained in paragraph 7 of the United Nations Representative’s proposal of 4 September 1952 (Annex VIII of S/2783);

Records its gratitude to the United Nations Representative for India and Pakistan for the great efforts which he has made to achieve a settlement and requests him to continue to make his services available to the Governments of India and Pakistan to this end;

Requests the Governments of India and Pakistan to report to the Security Council not later than thirty days from the date of the adoption of this resolution and further requests the United Nations Representative for India and Pakistan to keep the Security Council informed of any progress.

1. Source: The joint U.K.–U.S. draft resolution of Nov. 5, as subsequently amended (UN doc. S/2883), was approved by the Security Council at its 611th meeting on Dec. 23, 1952 by nine votes to none, with one abstention (USSR). Pakistan did not participate in the voting. (UN doc. S/PV. 611)