| UN Security Council Resolution 77 | |
|---|---|
| Date | October 11 1949 |
| Meeting no. | 450 |
| Code | S/1403 (Document) |
| Subject | Armaments: regulation and reduction |
Voting summary | 9 voted for None voted against 2 abstained |
| Result | Adopted |
| Security Council composition | |
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 77, adopted on 11 October 1949, having received and examined the second progress report of the Commission for Conventional Armaments, the Council directed the Secretary-General to transmit the report, along with its annexes, accompanying resolution and a record of the Council’s consideration of the subject to the General Assembly for its information.
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The United Nations Commission on Conventional Armaments was founded as a result of the founding United Nations treaty in 1946. The goal of the commission was to find ways to reduce the size of non-nuclear armaments around the world. The Commission was formally established by the Security Council Resolution on 13 February 1947. The five permanent members of the United Nation Security Council could not agree on how to achieve this aim and so the first report of the Commission in 1949 made no substantial recommendations.
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The resolution was adopted with nine votes in favour and two abstentions from the Ukrainian SSR and Soviet Union.
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