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U.N. Security Council Resolution 338
In the later stages of the Yom Kippur War -- after Israel
repulsed the Syrian attack on the Golan Heights and established a
bridgehead on the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal -- international
efforts to stop the fighting were intensified. US Secretary of
State Kissinger flew to Moscow on October 20, and, together with
the Soviet Government, the US proposed a cease-fire resolution in
the UN Security Council. The Council met on 21 October at the
urgent request of both the US and the USSR, and by 14 votes to
none, adopted the following resolution:
The Security Council,
- Calls upon all parties to present fighting to cease all firing
and terminate all military activity immediately, no later than 12
hours after the moment of the adoption of this decision, in the
positions after the moment of the adoption of this decision, in
the positions they now occupy;
- Calls upon all parties concerned to start immediately after
the cease-fire the implementation of Security Council Resolution
242 (1967) in all of its parts;
- Decides that, immediately and concurrently with the
cease-fire, negotiations start between the parties concerned under
appropriate auspices aimed at establishing a just and durable
peace in the Middle East.
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