United Nations Security Council Resolution 312

United Nations Security Council Resolution 312, adopted on February 4, 1972, after reaffirming previous resolutions on the topic and deploring those who failed to conform to them the Council called upon Portugal to immediately recognize the right of the peoples of her colonies to self-determination, to cease all acts of repression against the peoples of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea (Bissau), to withdraw its armed forces from those areas, to promulgate an unconditional political amnesty and to transfer power to freely elected native representative institutions.

UN Security Council Resolution 312
Date	4 February 1972
Meeting no.	1,639
Code	S/RES/312 (Document)
Subject	Question concerning the situation in Territories under Portuguese administration
Voting summary	9 voted for None voted against 6 abstained
Result	Adopted
Security Council composition
Permanent members	China France United Kingdom United States Soviet Union
Non-permanent members	Argentina Belgium Guinea India Italy Japan Panama Somalia Sudan Yugoslavia
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The Council then called upon states to refrain from offering the Portuguese government any military assistance which would enable it to continue to repress the peoples of its territories and requested the Secretary-General to follow the implementation of the present resolution and report back from time to time.

Resolution 312 passed with nine votes and six abstentions from Argentina, Belgium, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and United States.

See also

• List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 301 to 400 (1971–1976)
• Portuguese Empire
• Portuguese Colonial War

References

• Text of the Resolution at undocs.org

External links

• Works related to United Nations Security Council Resolution 312 at Wikisource