United Nations Security Council Resolution 4

Resolution 4 of the UN Security Council was adopted on 29 April 1946. The Security Council condemned the Franco regime in Spain and formed a sub-committee, which was to determine whether the rule of Franco leads to international tensions and if so, what should be done.

Vote

The resolution was adopted with 10 votes. The Soviet Union abstained. This is the first resolution in the history of the Security Council, in which a permanent member abstained from voting. This is important in so far as was not clearly established in the early days of the Security Council, whether an abstention in the Security Council a negative vote, thus to veto equals or not. The Soviet representative in the Security Council, Gromyko, the public does not support the resolution, but still wanted to take effect, announced on the record that he wanted to know his abstention understood in any case as a precedent for the treatment of the abstention of permanent members in the Security Council.

Follow

In Resolution 7 of 26 June 1946, the Security Council dealt with the outcome of the investigation of the subcommittee. This had confirmed all the facts that led to the condemnation of the Franco regime. In Resolution 10 of 4 November 1946, the Security Council finally ended its involvement in the matter and handed over to the General Assembly any files.