UN Security Council
Resolution 19
DateFebruary 27 1947
Meeting no.114
CodeS/RES/19 (Document)
SubjectThe Corfu Channel incidents
Voting summary
  • 8 voted for
  • None voted against
  • 3 abstained
ResultAdopted
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 19, adopted on February 27, 1947, created a sub-committee of three members to examine all the facts involved in the dispute between the United Kingdom and Albania over the Corfu Channel incident and to make a report to the Council no later than March 10, 1947. Two British vessels were sunk by mines in the Straits on October 22, 1946.

The resolution passed with 8 votes, with three abstentions from Poland, the Soviet Union and Syria.

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