1950, January 13, Yakov Malik ,The remaining members of the Security Council decided to carry on despite the Soviet boycott.
1950 June 27, the Security Council voted to invoke military action by the United Nations for the first time in the organization’s history. The Soviets could have blocked the action in the Security Council, since the United States, Soviet Union, China, Britain, and France each had absolute veto power, but no Russian delegate was present. In just a short time, a multinational U.N. force arrived in South Korea and the grueling three-year Korean War was underway.
The Soviet Union subsequently returned to various UN bodies in August 1950.
