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Rebus sic Stantibus before the Security Council: The Anglo-Egyptian Question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

Herbert W. Briggs
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , October 1949 , pp. 762 - 769
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1949

References

1 173 L.N.T.S. 401; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 31 (1937), p. 77.

2 U. N. Doc. 8/410, July 11, 1947; Security Council, Official Records, 2d Tear, No. 59, p. 1343.

3 Security Council, Official Records, 2d Year, No. 70, 175th meeting, Aug. 5, 1947, p. 1753. See also id., No. 73, p. 1861; No. 86, pp. 2292 ff.

4 Id., No. 70, pp. 1747, 1752-1753.

5 Id., No. 73, p. 1862.

6 Id., No. 75, p. 1961.

7 Id., No. 86, p. 2293.

8 Id., No. 75, p. 1959.

9 Id., No. 82, p. 2166.

10 Id., No. 73, p. 1862.

11 Id., No. 75, p. 1959.

12 Id., No. 86, p. 2292.

13 Security Council, Official Records, 2d Year, No. 73, p. 1861.

14 Id., No. 70, p. 1755.

15 Id., pp. 1755-1757.

16 Id., pp. 1747, 1753.

17 Id., No. 73, p. 1861.

18 Id., No. 86, p. 2293.

19 Id., No. 75, p. 1961.

20 Id.

21 Id., No. 82, p. 2164.

22 Id., No. 73, p. 1873.

23 Id., No. 70, p. 1772. Cf. id., No. 75, p. 1954.

24 Id., No. 70, p. 1773. Cf. id., No. 73, p. 1897; No. 75, p. 1954.

25 Id., No. 84, p. 2252.

26 Id., No. 70, p. 1773.

27 Security Council, Official Records, 2d Year, pp. 1778-1779. The Egyptian argument based on “changed conditions”—that the Treaty had “outlived its purposes”—was countered by Sir Alexander with a denial that political conditions had changed sufficiently to render agreements for mutual assistance unnecessary, as witness the Treaty of Dunkirk between the United Kingdom and France and the Anglo-Soviet Treaty. Id., pp. 1776, 1778.

28 Id., No. 75, p. 1955.

29 Cf. U. N. Doc. S/410, July 11, 1947, cited above, footnote 2.

30 General Assembly Resolution No. 41 (I), U. N. Doc. A/64/Add. 1, p. 66.

31 Security Council, Official Records, 2d Year, No. 70, pp. 1780 ff.

32 Id., p. 1782.

33 Id., p. 1778.

34 Id., No. 80, pp. 2106 ff.

35 Id., p. 2108.

36 Cf., Papers regarding the Negotiations for a Revision of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936, United Kingdom, State Papers, 1946-47, XXVI, Egypt No. 2 (1947), Cmd. 7179.

37 Security Council, Official Records, 2d Year, No. 80, p. 2109.

38 Id., p. 2115.

39 Id., No. 84, p. 2244.

40 Id., No. 86, p. 2287.

41 Id., p. 2290.

42 Id., p. 2296.

43 Id., No. 87, p. 2334.

44 Id., No. 84, pp. 2242-2243.

45 Id., No. 80, p. 2110.

46 Id., No. 86, p. 2285.

47 Id., No. 75, pp. 1964-1965.

48 Id., No. 84, pp. 2250-2251.

49 Only Australia, Belgium, France, and the United States voted for it, the others abstaining. Id., No. 86, pp. 2302-2303.

50 Votes for: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Trance, United States; vote against: Poland; abstentions: Colombia, Syria, U.S.S.R.; in accordance with Art. 27 of the Charter, the representative of the United Kingdom did not participate in the voting. Id., pp. 2304-2305.

51 See id., Nos. 86, 87, 88.

52 The Egyptians, in presenting their case to the Security Council, misrepresented British willingness to compromise. The 1946 negotiations between the United Kingdom and Egypt had led to the initialing of draft agreements by which Britain had renounced the 1936 Treaty of Alliance in favor of an agreement for mutual defense and had agreed “that the complete evacuation of Egyptian territory (Egypt) by the British Forces shall be completed by 1st September, 1949.” The negotiations broke down and the draft agreements never came into force because the Egyptians refused to consider self-determination and possible independence for the Sudan, insisting that the Sudan was Egyptian. See Papers regarding the Negotiations for a Revision of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936, Cmd. 7179, cited above.