United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 Security Council Resolution

United Nations Security Council Resolution

A United Nations Security Council resolution is a UN resolution adopted by the fifteen members of the Security Council; the UN body charged with "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security"....

 14, adopted on December 16, 1946, changed the rules of procedure so that the terms of the rotating presidency of the Council

United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council is one of the principal organs of the United Nations and is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. Its powers, outlined in the United Nations Charter, include the establishment of peacekeeping operations, the establishment of...

 would correspond with the calendar year. Additionally, the terms of elected members of the Security Council were decided to commence on January 1 and end on December 31.

The resolution was adopted with 9 votes, with abstentions from the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 and United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

.