| Number: | 259 |
| Organ: | SC |
| Date: | September 27 |
| Year: | 1968 |
| Meeting: | 1454 |
| Code: | S/RES/259 |
| Document: | https://undocs.org/S/RES/259(1968) |
| For: | 12 |
| Abstention: | 3 |
| Against: | 0 |
| Subject: | The situation in the Middle East |
| Result: | Adopted |
United Nations Security Council Resolution 259, adopted on September 27, 1968, concerned with the welfare of the inhabitants of the Arab territories then occupied by Israel after the Six-Day War, the Council requested the Secretary-General send a Special Representative to report on the implementation of resolution 237. The Council requested that Israel receive and co-operate with the Special Representative and that the Secretary-General should be afforded all co-operation in order to implement the present resolution.
The resolution was passed with 12 votes to none; Canada, Denmark and the United States abstained.