United Nations Security Council Resolution 718

United Nations Security Council resolution

United Nations resolution adopted in 1991

15 voted for

None voted against

None abstained

ResultAdoptedSecurity Council composition

Permanent members

China
France
United Kingdom
United States
Soviet Union

Non-permanent members

Austria
Belgium
Cuba
Ecuador
India
Ivory Coast
Romania
Yemen
Zaire
Zimbabwe

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United Nations Security Council resolution 718, adopted unanimously on 31 October 1991, after recalling resolutions 668 (1990) and 717 (1991), and noting that at the Paris Conference, a political agreement was signed by parties to the situation in Cambodia, the Council authorised the Secretary-General to submit a report on the costs for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, prior to its establishment.

The Council welcomed the political agreement, which the four parties decided to create "a system of liberal democracy, on the basis of pluralism."^[1] It went on to authorise the Secretary-General to designate a special representative for Cambodia to act on his behalf, welcoming his decision to send a survey mission to the country to prepare plans for implementing the mandate agreed at the Paris Conference. The resolution also called for the co-operation of the Supreme National Council of Cambodia and all parties with the Mission regarding the implementation of the agreements in the political settlement, and for all parties to observe a ceasefire.

The Secretary-General's report was examined in Resolution 745.^[2]

References

^ Doyle, Michael W.; Johnstone, Ian; Orr, Robert Cameron (1997). Keeping the peace: multidimensional UN operations in Cambodia and El Salvador. Cambridge University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-521-58837-9.
^ Mayall, James (1996). The New interventionism, 1991–1994: United Nations experience in Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, and Somalia. Cambridge University Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-521-55856-3.