United Nations Security Council Resolution 19, adopted on February 27, 1947, created a sub-committee of three members to examine all the facts involved in the dispute between the United Kingdom and Albania over the Corfu Channel incident and to make a report to the Council no later than March 10, 1947. Two British vessels were sunk by mines in the Straits on October 22, 1946.

The resolution passed with 8 votes, with three abstentions from Poland, the Soviet Union and Syria.