66 (1948). Resolution of 29 December 1948
[S/1169] The Security Council,
Having considered the report of the Acting Mediator on the hostilities which broke out in southern Palestine
on 22 December 1948,
Calls upon the Governments concerned:
(i) To order an immediate cease-fire;
(ii) To implement without further delay resolution 61 (1948) of 4 November 1948 and the instructions issued by
the Acting Mediator in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) of the fifth paragraph of that resolution;
(iii) To allow and facilitate the complete supervision of the truce by the United Nations observers;
Instructs the committee of the Council appointed on 4 November to meet at Lake Success on 7 January 1949 to
consider the situation in southern Palestine and to report to the Council on the extent to which the Governments concerned have by that date com-plied with the present resolution and with resolutions 61 (1948) and 62 (1948) of 4 and 16 November 1948;
Invites Cuba and Norway to replace as from 1 January 1949 the two retiring members of the committee (Belgium
and Colombia) ;
Expresses the hope that the members of the Conciliation Commission appointed by the General Assembly on 11
December 1948 will nominate their representatives and establish the Commission with as little delay as possible.
Adopted at the 396th meeting by 8 votes to none, with 3 abstentions (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics, United States of America).