dad and Tobago, Ukrainian Soviet ‘Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Against: None. Abstaining: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America. The draft resolution was adopted by 13 votes against none, with 2 abstentions [resolution 566 (1985)J. 34. The PRESIDENT: I shall now call on those members of the Council who wish to make statements after the voting. 29. My delegation therefore went to great lengths to try to bring about a draft resolution on these lines. As the Council knows, we formulated specific and constructive proposals which, in our view, should have been acceptable to all Council members. I must pay tribute, Mr. President, to the constructive efforts you made to the same end. I much regret that these proposals did not meet with the response for which we had hoped, and that a draft resolu- tion has been submitted which it is known we cannot support. 35. Mr, WOOLCOTT (Australia): In the Australian statement to the Security Council on this question six days ago [258&h meeting], my delegation urged the Council to send to the South African Government to clear, strong and unambiguous message. The Council’s debate on this *matter can have left South Africa in no doubt as to the strength and the unanimity of international opinion. 36. Today, in agreeing to a resolution, the Council has reinforced that opinion. My delegation would like to pay tribute to you, personally, Mr. President, to the representa- tives of the front-line States, to the members of the Council and to SWAP0 for the efforts that have been made to bring about a draft resolution which could be adopted by the Council. 30. We cannot support any suggestion that armed strug- gle is to be preferred to negotiations. We do not think it 