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Security Council recommends admission of FR of Yugoslavia to UN membership
31 October -- In a unanimous decision, the Security Council today recommended to the General Assembly that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia be admitted to membership in the United Nations.

The Council acted in response to an application for membership submitted by Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, who cited "fundamental democratic changes" in his country as the impetus behind the request. Fulfilling the requirement for all States seeking to join the UN, President Kostunica pledged to accept the obligations contained in the UN Charter and undertake to fulfil them. President Kostunica's application letter dated 27 October was addressed to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who circulated it as an official document of the General Assembly and the Security Council.

In a statement, which accompanied the Security Council's resolution on the admission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Council President, Ambassador Martin Andjaba of Namibia, congratulated the country on this "historic" occasion.

"We look forward to the day in the near future when the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will join us as a Member of the United Nations and to working closely with its representatives," the statement said.

The need for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to apply for UN membership stems from a September 1992 resolution of the General Assembly which followed the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. By that resolution, adopted at the recommendation of the Security Council, the Assembly ruled that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprised of Serbia and Montenegro, could not automatically continue the membership of the former Yugoslavia. Earlier that year, three constituent parts of the former Yugoslavia - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia - became UN Member States in their own right. A fourth, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, followed suit by joining the UN in 1993.