UNTSO
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
UNTSO
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
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Letter dated 21 December 2016 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2016/1093)

  • 22 December 2016
  • Reports of the Secretary-General

Summary by the Secretary-General of the report of the United nations Headquarters Board of Inquiry into the incident involving a relief operation to Urum al-Kubra, Syrian Arab Republic, on 19 September 2016.

United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

On 29 May 1948, the Security Council, in Resolution 50 (1948), called for a cessation of hostilities in Palestine and decided that the truce should be supervised by the UN Mediator, with the assistance of a group of military observers.