Security Council Resolution 47(1948)

          13. The Government of India should use and should ensure that the Government of the State also use their best endeavours to effect the withdrawal from the State of all Indian nationals other than those who are normally resident therein or who on or since 15 August 1947 have entered it for a lawful purpose.

          14. The Government of India should ensure that the Government of the State releases all political prisoners and take all possible steps so that:

          (a) All citizens of the State who have left it on account of disturbances are invited, and are free, to return to their homes and to exercise their rights as such citizens;

          (b) There is no victimization;

          (c) Minorities in all parts of the State are accorded adequate protection.

          15. The Commission of the Security Council should at the end of the plebiscite certify to the Council whether the plebiscite has or has not been really free and impartial.

C. General provisions

          16. The Governments of India and Pakistan should each be invited to nominate a representative to be attached to the Commission for such assistance as it may require in the performance of its task

          17. The Commission shouId establish in Jammu and Kashmir such observers as it may require of any of the proceedings in pursuance of the measures in the foregoing paragraphs.

          18. The Security Council Commission should carry out the tasks assigned to it herein.

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          The five members of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan were: CZECHOSLOVAKIA (nominated by India on 10 February 1948); BElGIUM and COLOMBIA (appointed by the Council on 23 April 1948 - see the decision below); ARGENTINA (nominated by Pakistan on 30 April 1948); UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (designated by the President of the Council on 7 May 1948, in the absence of agreement between Argentina and Czechoslovakia on the member to be designated by them).

⁶ The draft resolution was voted on paragraph by paragraph. No vote was taken on the text as a whole.

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