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United Nations Security Council Resolution 397

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ288364 ↗
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 397, adopted on November 22, 1976, after examining the application of the People's Republic of Angola for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that Angola (now the Republic of Angola) be admitted.

The resolution was adopted by 13 votes to none, while the United States abstained and China did not participate in the voting.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “United Nations Security Council Resolution 397” as united Nations Security Council resolution. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-11-22. The account is most persuasive where United, Nations and Security can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as united Nations Security Council resolution. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “United Nations Security Council Resolution 397” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.