Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, East Asia and the Pacific, Volume VI

Editorial Note

The United Nations Security Council met on August 29 from 3:00 to 6:30 p. m.; for the record of the meeting, see U.N. document S/PV.492. The Council decided to include on its agenda the item “Complaint of Armed Invasion of Taiwan (Formosa).” The United States voted in favor of the adoption of the item. The Soviet Representative then submitted a draft resolution (S/1732) inviting a representative of the People’s Republic of China to attend meetings of the Security Council on this agenda item, but the draft resolution was defeated by a vote of four in favor (India, Norway, U.S.S.R., and Yugoslavia) to four opposed (China, Cuba, Ecuador, and United States), with three abstentions (Egypt, France, and the United Kingdom).