Josip Broz Tito dies

The agreement ended the Lancaster House negotiations and established the terms for a ceasefire, elections and transition from white-minority rule in Rhodesia. Independence followed in 1980, although...

The Soviet intervention intensified a conflict already shaped by Afghan political upheaval and Cold War competition. At the UN, many states defended Afghanistan’s sovereignty and debated the...

A group of UN members asked the Council to consider the crisis in Afghanistan. The request shows how states outside the superpowers used multilateral procedures to contest interventions and invoke...

At its sixth emergency special session, the Assembly adopted resolution ES-6/2 calling for the withdrawal of foreign troops and respect for Afghanistan’s sovereignty and non-alignment. The vote...

The new state emerged after decades of settler colonialism, land dispossession and armed struggle. Independence enlarged African political sovereignty, while the settler land system and unequal...

Resolution 476 declared Israel’s measures to alter the character and status of Jerusalem invalid and called for their rescission. The decision connected Palestinian self-determination with the...

As chair of the Movement, Cuba transmitted portions of the 1979 Havana summit declaration for UN consideration. The text linked Palestinian rights to opposition to occupation and unequal international...

The Assembly adopted resolution ES-7/2, calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories and a just settlement of the Palestine question. The resolution recorded strong support for...

Resolution 478 rejected Israel’s Basic Law on Jerusalem and called on states to withdraw diplomatic missions from the city. The vote challenged annexation and the attempt to make control over occupied...

The General Assembly admitted Zimbabwe as the UN’s 153rd member, five months after independence. Admission recognized formal sovereign equality, while the movement from colonial rule to material...