Cuba circulates the Havana NAM declaration on Palestine at the UN

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...

Tito’s death removed a central founder of the Non-Aligned Movement and the leader who had hosted its first summit in Belgrade. His legacy embodied an independent socialist path, though postcolonial...

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...

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...

The invasion began a devastating war that lasted eight years. Iran and Iraq both invoked sovereignty and security, while the conflict exposed how regional rivalries and external arms relationships...

Resolution 479 urged both governments to refrain from further force and accept mediation. The brief text treated the parties symmetrically and did not address the causes of the invasion or the unequal...