Complaint of detention and imprisonment of United Nations military personnel in violation of the Korean Armistice Agreement

IX. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED WITHOUT REFERENCE TO A COMMITTEE
906. Complaint of detention and imprisonment of United Nations military personnel in violation of the Korean Armistice Agreement

The General Assembly, Having considered the item proposed by the United States of America as the Unified Command regarding eleven members of the United States armed forces under the United Nations Command captured by Chinese forces when undertaking a mission on 12 January 1953, at the direction of the United Nations Command, Recalling the provisions of article III of the Korean Armistice Agreement[1] regarding the repatriation of prisoners of war,

1. Declares that the detention and imprisonment of the eleven American airmen, members of the United Nations Command, referred to in document A/2830,[2] and the detention of all other captured personnel of the United Nations Command desiring repatriation is a violation of the Korean Armistice Agreement;

2. Condemns, as contrary to the Korean Armistice Agreement, the trial and conviction of prisoners of war illegally detained after 25 September 1953;

3. Requests the Secretary-General, in the name of the United Nations, to seek the release, in accordance with the Korean Armistice Agreement, of these eleven United Nations Command personnel, and all other captured personnel of the United Nations Command still detained;

4. Requests the Secretary-General to make, by the means most appropriate in his judgment, continuing and unremitting efforts to this end and to report progress to all Members on or before 31 December 1954.

509th plenary meeting,
10 December 1954.

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[1] See Official Records of the Security Council, Eighth Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1953, document S/3079. [2] See Official Records of the General Assembly, Ninth Session, Annexes, agenda item 72.