The United Nations Security Council agreed to consider the petitions filed on the Kuwait Crisis. The initial session involved setting an agenda and debating three important questions. First, did Kuwait, not a United Nations member, have the right to request and attend sessions of the Security Council? Second, did Iraq threaten the security of the region with its claims for annexation of Kuwait? Third, did British military intervention in Kuwait threaten regional security and necessitate discussion at the level of the Security Council? Discussion among the Security Council members (which included the United Kingdom as a permanent member and the United Arab Republic as a rotating member in 1961) resulted in acknowledgment that Kuwait held the right to petition the Security Council as a non-member of the United Nations under the latter’s charter; Kuwait and Iraq could request seating during the discussion; and the Kuwait Crisis did threaten regional peace and should be heard by the Security Council. The chapter includes reaction from Iraq, the United Kingdom, and the United States to this first session.