text: Establishment andofGuarantee concluded atthesametime. Theresolutions in effectpurported toexpress legalconclusions baseduponwhatmustpresumably have appeared totheSecurity Council atthetimetobevalidlegalconsiderations. But because. asamatteroffact.theactionoftheTurkish Cypriot community clearly flowed fromandwasareaction tothepriorconduct oftheGreekCypriot community. andbecause theGreekCypriot community oweddutiestotheRepublic ofCyprus and totheTurkish Cypriot community nolessthanthelatterdidtotheformer. asa matteroflaw.nojudgement couldproperly bepassed bytheSecurity Council upon theconduct ofonesidewithout atthesametimepassing judgement ontheconduct oftheother. /... Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryA/ 44/ 968 s/ 21463 English Page 4 (c) The security Council ditt not adopt this even-hauded approach. Instead it dealt nith the action of the Turki6h Cypriot community in isofation. If it had assessed the situation as a whole, it. could not possibly have concluded that the conducE of the Turkish Ctrpriot community violated the controLting legal instrumeuts$hile the conduct of tbe Greek CyprioE conmunity did not.. Nor could it have reached any other conclusion that that. the action of the creek Clpriot connunityjustified the conduct of the Turkish Cypriot conmunity, (d) The resolutions of the Security Council were, therefore, tainted by sucha degree of, selectivity and incompl,etetess as to render them arbitrary aualdiscriminatory, and thus not weL!. founded in law. It follows that the caff to States aot. to recognize the TRNC was not legally justified. The action of the Security CounciL in this case nas quite different to its action in relat.ion to Rhodesia and the African bantustans where there trere no contsrolliag treaties. Accordingly, pending Ehe settlement of the Cyprus queseion by Degotiatiors between the two communities, the Security CouDcil's calt for non-recognition of the TRNC should not be rnaintained.. (e) ft is wrong for the Security Coutlcil Eo express legal opinions more suiteal to a judicial thaE a political body. The Security Council does not adhere to jualicial forms and caanot in tbe course of a debate on any situation probe the
analysis: The text appears to be a legal document or a statement discussing the legitimacy of a political entity, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). It references the United Nations Security Council and its resolutions, as well as the actions of the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities. The text is focused on the legal implications of these events and the Security Council's decisions.