United Nations Security Council Resolution 147

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147, adopted unanimously on August 23, 1960, after examining the application of the Republic of Dahomey

Dahomey

Dahomey was a country in west Africa in what is now the Republic of Benin. The Kingdom of Dahomey was a powerful west African state that was founded in the seventeenth century and survived until 1894. From 1894 until 1960 Dahomey was a part of French West Africa. The independent Republic of Dahomey...

(now known as Benin

Benin

Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located...

) for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly

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that the Republic of Dahomey be admitted.

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