{{pp-extended|small=yes}} {{Infobox UN resolution |number = 273 |organ = GA |date = May 11 |year = 1949 |meeting = |code = A/RES/273 (III) |document = https://web.archive.org/web/20130615041505/http://unispal.un.org:80/UNISPAL.NSF/0/83E8C29DB812A4E9852560E50067A5AC |for = 37 |abstention = 9 |against = 12 |subject = Admission of Israel to membership in the United Nations |result = Adopted |image = A forest of national flags welcomed a delegation of US Senators who came to Israel (FL62043414).jpg |caption = Israel flag }} [[File:Israel-20New-Sheqalim-1993-avers.jpg|thumb|Obverse side of a 20 [[New Israeli Shekel|NIS]] bill, showing the raising of the Israeli Flag on the UN Building, following the resolution]] '''United Nations General Assembly Resolution 273''' was adopted on 11 May 1949 to admit [[Israel]] as a [[United Nations member state]]. It followed the approval of [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 69]] on 4 March 1949.
Resolution 273 was opened in the second half of the [[third session of the United Nations General Assembly]]. It received 37 votes in favour and 12 votes against, with 9 abstentions, thereby fulfilling the requisite two-thirds majority for successful adoption.
==Background==
In the debates about UN resolution 273 in 1949 about Israel's admittance to the UN, Israel's UN representative [[Abba Eban]] promised that the state would honor its obligations under resolution 181 and [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194|Resolution 194]]. [[El Salvador]]'s representative asked:{{sfn|Boyle|2010|pp=279-280}} {{blockquote|text=I wish to ask the representative of Israel whether he is authorized by his Government to assure the Committee that the State of Israel will do everything in its power to co-operate with the United Nations in order to put into effect (a) the General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the [[Status of Jerusalem|internationalization of the City of Jerusalem]] and the surrounding area [resolution 181] and (b) the General Assembly resolution of 11 December 1948 on the repatriation of the refugees [resolution 194].}} Eban replied:{{sfn|Boyle|2010|pp=279-280}} {{blockquote|I can give unqualified affirmative answer to the second question as to whether we will co-operate with the organs of the United Nations with all the means at our disposal in the fulfillment of the resolution concerning refugees. I cannot honestly conceal from the Committee that even our full co-operation with all the means at our disposal will not avail to solve this question unless it is considered against the general background of the Near East and unless similar co-operation from other neighbouring Governments and a large measure of international assistance are invested in the solution of this problem on a regional basis.}} He further added:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-185978/|title=Israel membership in the UN – Ad Hoc Political Committee - 47th|publisher=United Nations|pages=282}}</ref>
{{blockquote|The Government of Israel considers and has made it clear that the return of [[Palestinian refugees|Arab refugees]] was one of the methods of settling this problem. It considers, as the Conciliation Commission considers and as one of the Governments represented in the United Nations, the opinion of which I quoted this morning seems also to consider, that another method of settling the question would be resettlement of the refugees in neighboring countries. The balance of those resettled in neighboring countries, in comparison with the numbers resettled in Israel, is a matter to be settled by mutual consent after negotiations for which we are immediately prepared.}}
== Full text == {{Quote box | bgcolor = #FDFBFA | fontsize = 100% | align = none | quote = ''Having received'' the report of the [[United Nations Security Council|Security Council]] on the application of Israel for membership in the United Nations,<ref name="r1" />
''Noting'' that, in the judgment of the Security Council, Israel is a peace-loving State and is able and willing to carry out the obligations contained in the [[United Nations Charter|Charter]],
''Noting'' that the Security Council has recommended to the general Assembly that it admit Israel to membership in the United Nations,
''Noting'' furthermore the declaration by the State of Israel that it "unreservedly accepts the obligations of the United Nations Charter and undertakes to honour them from the day when it becomes a member of the United Nations",<ref name="r2" />
''Recalling'' its resolutions of [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine|29 November 1947]]<ref name="r3" /> and [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194|11 December 1948]]<ref name="r4" /> and taking note of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120203124136/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/85255a0a0010ae82852555340060479d/1db943e43c280a26052565fa004d8174?OpenDocument#Mr.%20EBAN%20(Israel)%20understood%20tha declarations and explanations] made by the representative of the Government of Israel<ref name="r5" /> before the Ad Hoc Political Committee in respect of the implementation of the said resolutions,
''The General Assembly'',
''Acting'' in discharge of its functions under Article 4 of the Charter and rule 125 of its rules of procedure,
1. ''Decides'' that Israel is a peace-loving State which accepts the obligations contained in the Charter and is able and willing to carry out those obligations;
2. ''Decides'' to admit Israel to membership in the United Nations.
___________________ {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="r1">See document A/818.</ref> <ref name="r2">See document S/1093.</ref> <ref name="r3">See Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly during its second session, pages 131-132.</ref> <ref name="r4">See Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly during Part I of its third session, pages 21-25.</ref> <ref name="r5">See documents [https://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/85255e950050831085255e95004fa9c3/1db943e43c280a26052565fa004d8174?OpenDocument A/AC.24/SR.45] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224212931/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/85255e950050831085255e95004fa9c3/1db943e43c280a26052565fa004d8174?OpenDocument |date=February 24, 2012 }}-48, 50 and 51.</ref> }} }}
== Voting results == [[File:United Nations General Assembly Resolution 273.png|300px|thumb|Map of voting results for UNGA Resolution 273 by country (11 May 1949)]] The result of the voting was the following:<ref>{{cite web |title=Admission of Israel to membership in the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly |date=11 May 1949 |url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/671023?ln=en |publisher=Dag Hammarskjöld Library}}</ref> '''In favour'''
[[Argentina]], [[Australia]], [[Bolivia]], [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic|Byelorussian SSR]], [[Canada]], [[Chile]], [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China (Republic of)]], [[Colombia]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Cuba]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Dominican Republic]], [[Ecuador]], [[France]], [[Guatemala]], [[Haiti]], [[Honduras]], [[Iceland]], [[Liberia]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Mexico]], [[Netherlands]], [[New Zealand]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Norway]], [[Panama]], [[Paraguay]], [[Peru]], [[Philippines]], [[Poland]], [[Union of South Africa|South Africa]], [[Soviet Union]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[United States]], [[Uruguay]], [[Venezuela]], [[Yugoslavia]].
'''Against'''
[[Kingdom of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]], [[Burma]], [[Egypt]], [[Ethiopia]], [[India]], [[Iran]], [[Iraq]], [[Lebanon]], [[Pakistan]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Syria]], [[Yemen]].
'''Abstaining'''
[[Belgium]], [[Brazil]], [[Denmark]], [[El Salvador]], [[Greece]], [[Siam]], [[Sweden]], [[Turkey]], [[United Kingdom]].
== See also == * [[List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel]] * [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]] * [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194]]
== References == {{reflist}}
==Sources== * {{cite book | first=Francis A. | last = Boyle | title=Palestine, Palestinians and International Law | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=URcq-uIuCQUC&pg=PT279 | date=August 13, 2010 | publisher=SCB Distributors | isbn=978-0-932863-92-8 | pages=279– }}
== External links == * [https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/210373?ln=en Full text of the Resolution, in English and French (pdf)] * [https://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/PV.207&Lang=E Official record of the 207th Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 11 May 1949]
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