United Nations Security Council Resolution 141
Resolution 141 of the UN Security Council on July 5, 1960 recommends that the UN General Assembly to approve the request of the newly independent on 1 July of the same year the East African state of Somalia to membership in the United Nations.
Background
Although Italian Somaliland was an Italian colony law, was decided at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, not to return it to Italy. Instead, it was made in 1949 by the UN General Assembly on the Trust Territory under Italian administration ( 1950-1960 ). The Somali Youth League ( SYL ), which sought immediate independence, unsuccessfully opposed this decision. In the last decade before independence could by UN Development Assistance significant progress, for example in the Somali education system, can be achieved. In memory of this support, the flag of Somalia is modeled after that of the United Nations.
There was within the Somali population efforts to abolish the division of their territory and to all a Somali in a country ( Greater Somalia ). The SYL supported this goal. So British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland became independent on July 1, 1960 to collectively as Somalia. The new state wrote the pursuit of the unification of all Somali territories established in its constitution.
Content
The resolution reads as follows ( unofficial translation ):
The Security
Recommends to the General Assembly, having examined the application of the Republic of Somalia to approve accession to the United Nations, Somalia membership in the United Nations.
Official Records of the Security Council, Fifteenth Year, Supplement for July, August, and September 1960, document S/4360.
The resolution was unanimously adopted at the 871st meeting of the Security Council.
Accession
Somalia joined the United Nations on 20 September 1960.