U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 338
October 22, 1973
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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