Captioned: "Jacob A. Malik, Soviet representative on the U.N. Security Council, raises his hand to cast the only dissenting vote to the resolution calling on the Chinese Communists to withdraw troops from Korea. Lake Success, NY." Yakov Alexandrovich Malik (December 6, 1906 - February 11, 1980) was a Soviet diplomat. He was the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations from 1948 to 1952, and from 1968 to 1972. At the time of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 (demanded North Korea immediately end its invasion of South Korea, the catalyst for the beginning of the Korean War) on June 25, 1950, Malik was boycotting the presence of a Nationalist Chinese representative. His absence enabled the resolution to pass unanimously with a 9-0 vote. On the floor of the UN on June 23, 1951, he proposed an armistice in the Korean War between China and North Korea on one hand, and South Korea, the United States, and other United Nations forces on the other. He died in 1980 at the age of 73. Photograph credited to United States Information Agency (USIA), December 1950.