United Nations Security Council Resolution 377

United Nations Security Council Resolution 377, adopted on 22 October 1975, dealt with the situation in Western Sahara. The Council reaffirmed recent work by the General Assembly and noted a letter from the Permanent Representative of Spain. The Council then invoked Article 34 of the UN Charter to request the Secretary-General enter into immediate consultations with the parties concerned and interested and to report to the Security Council as soon as possible on the results.

UN Security Council Resolution 376
Western Sahara (Moroccan Wall in red)
Date	22 October 1975
Meeting no.	1,850
Code	S/RES/377 (Document)
Subject	Western Sahara
Result	Adopted
Security Council composition
Permanent members	China  France  United Kingdom  United States  Soviet Union
Non-permanent members	Byelorussian SSR  Cameroon  Costa Rica  Guyana Iraq  Italy  Japan  Mauritania  Sweden  Tanzania

The Council stressed it did not want to prejudice any negotiations which the General Assembly might undertake and appealed to the parties concerned and interested to exercise restraint and moderation.

No details of the vote were given, other than that it was "adopted by consensus".

The resolution was adopted in the wake of Morocco's invasion of Western Sahara and annexation to the country, in the aftermath of Spain's abandonment of the territory. The United Nations refused to recognise the claim; the Council reaffirmed United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514 of 14 December 1960 and all other resolutions over the territory.[1]

See also

• List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 301 to 400 (1971–1976)
• United Nations visiting mission to Spanish Sahara
• Western Sahara War

References

1. Hilaire, Max (2005). United Nations law and the Security Council. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-7546-4489-7.

External links

• Works related to United Nations Security Council Resolution 377 at Wikisource
• Text of the Resolution at undocs.org