United Nations Security Council Resolution 43 – The Palestine Question
43 (1948). Resolution of 1 April 1948
The Security Council,
In the exercise of its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security,
- Notes the increasing violence and disorder in Palestine and believes that it is of the utmost urgency that an immediate truce be effected in Palestine:
2. Calls upon the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Arab Higher Committee to make representatives available to the Security Council for the purpose of arranging a truce between the Arab and Jewish communities of Palestine ; and emphasizes the heavy responsibility which would fall upon any party failing to observe such a truce;
3. Calls upon Arab and Jewish armed groups in Palestine to cease acts of violence immediately.
Adopted unanimously at the 277th meeting.
