General Assembly reaffirms the people of Western Sahara’s right to self-determination

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...

The declaration called for renewed arms-control efforts and linked military spending to resources needed for social and economic development. Many developing states argued that the arms race...

The strategy set development goals for the decade and acknowledged the need for international cooperation. Its ambitions confronted structural problems identified by developing countries, including...

Resolution 35/118 called for full implementation of the independence declaration for colonial countries and peoples. It maintained pressure on administering powers and kept self-determination...

Resolution 35/206 called for coordinated sanctions and international campaigns against apartheid. NAM members and African liberation movements had long pressed for material action; the resolution also...

Foreign ministers met from 9 to 13 February amid debate over Afghanistan, Palestine, southern Africa and the future of non-alignment. The conference demonstrated that non-alignment was an active...