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Cyprus: Episode in Peacekeeping

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

James M. Boyd
James M. Boyd
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Colonel in the United States Air Force. He has recently been assigned as a Research Associate, Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University.
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On March 27, 1964, Secretary-General U Thant announced that the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) had become operational. This announcement occurred only a few days after the initial Canadian units landed in Cyprus soon to be joined by the forces from other contributing countries. The operation, initiated under the executive direction of the Secretary-General and at the request of the Security Council, thus became another in a series of peacekeeping efforts by the United Nations. One year later the Secretary-General was able to report that during the first year of operation UNFICYP had achieved “very creditable results” but that major difficulties still remained with respect to achieving a stable and enduring peace.

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International Organization , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , Winter 1966 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1966

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References

1 Report by the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in Cyprus (For the period 13 December 1964 to 10 March 1965) (UN Document S/6228, March 11, 1965), pp. 73–74.

2 Adams, T. W. and Cottrell, Alvin J., “The Cyprus Conflict,” Orbis, Spring 1964 (Vol. 8, No. 1), pp. 67–68.Google Scholar

3 Ibid., p. 69.

4 The treaties were the Treaty of Alliance between the Republic of Cyprus, Greece and Turkey; the Treaty of Guarantee between the Republic of Cyprus and Greece, the United Kingdom and Turkey; and the Treaty Concerning the Establishment of the Republic of Cyprus. For the texts of the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Guarantee, see American Foreign Policy, Current Documents, 1959 (United States Department of State Publication 7492) (Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963), pp. 765–775.Google Scholar

5 Gordon, King, “The U.N. in Cyprus,” International Journal (Toronto), Summer 1964 (Vol. 9, No. 3), pp. 336–347.Google Scholar

6 UN Document S/5488, December 26, 1963.

7 “U.N. Peace-Keeping Force in Cyprus,” United Nations Review, 04 1964 (Vol. 2, No. 4), p. 6.Google Scholar

8 See the statement by Sir Patrick Dean, the representative of the United Kingdom, in the Security Council debates on February 18, 1964 (Security Council Official Records [19th year], 1095th meeting, February 18, 1964, pp. 6–17).

9 Article 103 states that:

In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the Members of the United Nations under the present Charter and their obligations under any other international agreement, their obligations under the present Charter shall prevail.

10 Letter from President Johnson to General Cemal Gursel, President of Turkey, December 26, 1963 (Department of State Bulletin, 01 20, 1964 [Vol. 50, No. 1282], p. 90).Google Scholar

11 The New York Times, 02 9, 1964, p. 20Google Scholar; February 10, 1964, p. 1; February 13, 1964, p. 1; and February 18, 1964, p. 1.

12 Statement by Secretary of State Dean Rusk during his press conference on February 7, 1964 (Department of State Bulletin, 02 24, 1964 [Vol. 50, No. 1287], p. 283).Google Scholar

13 UN Document S/5543, February 15, 1964.

14 UN Document S/5545, February 15, 1964.

15 Security Council Official Records (19th year), 1095th–1102nd meetings, February 18–March 4, 1964.

16 Security Council Resolution 186 (1964), March 4, 1964 (UN Document S/5575).

17 This was reflected in the Soviet request for a separate vote on paragraph 4, the main operative paragraph establishing the Force, in which the Soviet Union, France, and Czechoslovakia abstained.

18 Ibid.

19 Security Council Resolution 187 (1964), March 13, 1964 (UN Document S/5603).

20 See Security Council Official Records (19th year), 1095th–1103rd meetings, February 18–March 13, 1964, for the views of the representatives of the Soviet Union and France in this respect. For an indication of the problems, difficulties, and the results of relying on voluntary methods, see the report of the Secretary-General on the collections to finance the first three months of the Force's operation in UN Document S/5764 and Add.1, June 15, 1964. Fortunately, during this initial period of operation the pledges were sufficient to defray the costs. However, the precarious nature of this method of financing was clearly evident in this initial report by the Secretary-General, and the subsequent history of UNFICYP has more than confirmed the difficulties inherent in relying on voluntary contributions.

21 Security Council Resolution 186 (1964), March 4, 1964 (UN Document S/5575).

22 UN Document S/5625 and Corr.1, March 26, 1964.

23 UN Documents S/5514, January 13, 1964; and S/5516, January 17, 1964.

24 UN Document S/5579, March 6, 1964.

25 UN Document S/5593 and Add.1, March 12, 1964.

26 UN Document S/5679, May 2, 1964, p. 1.

27 UN Document S/5634, March 31, 1964.

28 UN Document S/5764, June 15, 1964, p. 2.

29 Security Council Resolution 186 (1964), March 4, 1964 (UN Document S/5575).

30 UN Document S/5653, April 11, 1964.

31 Ibid.

32 UN Document S/5671, April 29, 1964, Annex I.

33 Ibid.

34 Ibid., p. 2, paragraph 4.

35 UN Document S/5691, May 11, 1964.

36 UN Document S/5679, May 2, 1964.

37 Ibid., p. 6.

38 UN Document S/6228, March 11, 1965.

39 UN Document S/6253, March 26, 1965.

40 UN Document S/5764, June 15, 1964, p. 34.

41 Ibid., pp. 4– 5, 18.

42 UN Document S/5950, September 10, 1964, p. 61.

43 UN Document S/6228, pp. 31–32.

44 For a review of these activities, see UN Document S/5671, April 29, 1964, and the periodic reports by the Secretary-General contained in UN Documents S/5764, June 15, 1964; S/5950, September 10, 1964; S/6102, December 12, 1964; S/6228, March 11, 1965; and S/6426, June 10, 1965.

45 Security Council Resolution 206 (1965), June 15, 1965. Since this article was written, the Security Council has extended UNFICYP's mandate until March 26, 1966 (Security Council Resolution 219 [1965], December 17, 1965).

46 Ibid.

47 UN Document S/6426, June 10, 1965, p. 50.

48 Ibid.

49 UN Document S/6569, July 29, 1965.

50 Ibid.

51 Ibid., pp. 6, 8.

52 UN Document S/PV.1236, August 10, 1965.

53 UN Document S/6603, adopted as Security Council Resolution 207 (1965), August 10, 1965.

54 UN Document S/6228, p. 74.