Yugoslavia Granted U.N. MembershipThe United Nations General Assembly Wednesday afternoon decided to grant U.N. membership to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.The move came after the General Assembly considered the recommendation made by the Security Council Tuesday. The Security Council recommended to the General Assembly that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia be granted membership of the United Nations. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia applied for U.N. membership last Friday. In a letter to the United Nations, Yugoslavia cited its fundamental changes as the impetus behind the request and pledged to accept and fulfill the obligations contained in the Charter of the United Nations. After the General Assembly made the decision, a flag raising ceremony was held at the U.N. headquarters in New York The need for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to apply for U.N. membership stems from resolution of the General Assembly in September 1992 which followed the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. By that resolution, adopted at the recommendation of the Security Council, the General Assembly ruled that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Nontenegro, could not automatically continue the membership of the former Yugoslavia. Earlier that year, three constituent parts of the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, became U.N. member states. A fourth, the former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia, followed suit by joining the U.N. in 1993. |
| People's Daily Online --- http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/ |