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	UN General Assembly Resolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A United Nations General Assembly Resolution is voted on by all member states of the United Nations in the General Assembly and requires a simple majority (50% of all votes plus one) to pass (with the exception of 'important questions which require two-thirds majority').
		Resolution 47/181: The partition of the British Mandate of Palestine.
		Resolution 505: Threats to the political independence and territorial integrity of China (Republic of China) and to the peace of the Far East, resulting from Soviet violations of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance of 14 August 1945 and from Soviet violations of the Charter of the United Nations
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UN_General_Assembly_Resolution (256 words)

	[04 Dec 1998] GA/9526 : GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEPLORES SOUTH ASIA NUCLEAR TESTS,
		The Assembly also called upon all States to redouble their efforts to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, confirming and strengthening their policies not to export equipment, materials or technology that could contribute to those weapons, under a resolution on nuclear disarmament and the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons.
		The Assembly would affirm that scientific and technological progress should be used to promote the sustainable economic development of all States and to safeguard international security, and that international cooperation in the use of science and technology through the transfer and exchange of technological know-how for peaceful purposes should be promoted.
		The Assembly would reaffirm that it was useful for the three regional centres to carry out dissemination and educational programmes aimed at changing basic attitudes with respect to peace and security and disarmament, and appeal to Member States, as well as to international and non-governmental organizations and foundations, to voluntarily contribute to the regional centres.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/un/19981204_ga9526.html (13479 words)

	UN General Assembly Voting Data
		This file contains a unique identifier for each resolution, the date of the vote, the UN resolution number, the vote-tally, short and long descriptions of the content of the votes and a hyperlink to the text of the resolution (where available).
		In general, the long descriptions in this period are perhaps somewhat less extensive than in previous years, but the text of the resolutions is easily accessible through the hyperlinks.
		I should observe that in the years 1988-1992 there were no resolutions that failed (there were 2 in 1987) and cursory checking of recent years confirms that resolutions rarely fail in the plenary session.
	home.gwu.edu /~voeten/UNVoting.htm (934 words)

	The Meaning of Resolution 242
		On November 22, 1967, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 242, establishing the principles that were to guide the negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
		This is also the implication of Resolution 338, according to Arthur Goldberg, the American ambassador who led the delegation to the UN in 1967.
		Goldberg explained: "The notable omissions-which were not accidental-in regard to withdrawal are the words 'the' or 'all' and 'the June 5, 1967 lines'....the resolution speaks of withdrawal from occupied territories without defining the extent of withdrawal."
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/UN/meaning_of_242.html (1097 words)

	STEPS TO REFORM UN SHOULD UNITE, NOT DIVIDE, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUMMIT TOLD
		To that end, the Assembly and the wider international community were urged to support the Secretary-General’s proposal to increase the United Nations Emergency Fund. As for Djibouti, the Government had made it a priority to promote and support an inclusive, egalitarian society.
		Reform should be the base for activating the General Assembly’s role in keeping international peace and security by setting the mechanisms that could guarantee respect for and implementation of its resolution.
		He called for the recasting of the United Nations and said the international organization should leave the United States, a country that did not respect the resolutions of the General Assembly and went ahead and bombed Iraq even though weapons of mass destruction did not exist there.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2005/ga10384.doc.htm (6167 words)

	United Nations (UN): UN First Committee on Disarmament and International Security: 1999 General Debate
		A draft resolution would be submitted at the current session by his country aimed at preventing the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction.
		Concerning a fourth special session of the General Assembly on disarmament, it was important to take advantage of the work achieved so far by the Disarmament Commission and to press for a consensus that would allow the session to be convened in the near future.
		The Assembly last year had adopted by consensus a resolution inviting the Conference on Disarmament to conclude a review of the mandate contained in its decision of 1992, with a view to reconstituting negotiations of a multilateral agreement to prevent an outer space arms race.
	www.acronym.org.uk /un/unfccomp.htm (20015 words)

	news - Commission adopts six resolutions and two decisions on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Before the resolution was adopted the Commission voted on the amendments proposed by the United States by a recorded vote, rejecting them with one in favour to 51 against, with one abstention.
		The delegation of the United States had requested that the co-sponsors use standard language in preambular paragraph 1 that was contained in other resolutions, not language that recalled treaties to which not all States parties had affirmed their obligations pursuant to treaties to which they had become a party.
		The 31 Member States who voted for the resolution on combating defamation of religions were apparently unconcerned by the absence from that resolution of any mention of those who defamed Islam by claiming to kill in its name or in the name of Allah.
	www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=59208&src=0 (7701 words)

	NTI: Issue Brief: UN General Assembly Tackles Nonproliferation and Disarmament After Disappointing Summit
		The resolution Towards a nuclear-free world: Accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament, sponsored by the NAC, was adopted by a vote of 153 in favor, 5 against (India, Israel, Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States), and 20 abstentions.
		The resolution was revised to omit the preambular paragraph that stated "the importance of the Treaty for the continued systematic and progressive efforts to reduce nuclear weapons globally, with the ultimate goal of eliminating those weapons, and of general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control."
		Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, sponsored by Indonesia on behalf of NAM, and Report of the Conference on Disarmament, sponsored by Peru, were adopted without a vote.
	nti.org /e_research/e3_71.html (4697 words)

	Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage of the UN General Assembly Special Session
		Negotiations on the text to be adopted at the 19th Special Session of the UN General Assembly began earlier this year during the Commission for Sustainable Development's (CSD) Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group and continued at the fifth session of the CSD (CSD-5).
		Among the issues that generated considerable debate were: the definition of sustainable development; incremental costs; time-bound commitments; commitments regarding ODA; domestic mobilization of resources; listing the sectoral themes for the CSD's focus in the next five years; and an invitation to the Secretary-General to develop strategies for long- term sustainability.
		General support for the Bulletin during 1997 is provided by the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) of the United Kingdom, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the European Community (DG-XI), the German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, the Ministry of Environment of Sweden, the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment, and UNDP.
	www.iisd.ca /csd/enb0588e.html (14289 words)

	UN Resolutions and Israel
		Resolution 497: "...'decides' that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan Heights is 'null and void' and demands that Israel rescind its decision forthwith"
		Resolution 517: "...'censures' Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon"
		Resolution 592: "...'strongly deplores' the killing of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops" 55.
	bitterfact.tripod.com /israel/unresolutions.html (2115 words)

	MIN NZO: 52ND SESSION OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
		Its notable recommendations regarding the strengthening of the role and functions of the General Assembly, attest to the importance which we as Member States attach to this body as the supreme political organ of the Organisation.
		The disappointing lack of consensus at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the Environment held in June 1997 leaves considerable follow-up action to be undertaken in order to accelerate the implementation of Agenda 21.
		In this respect, the role and importance of UNEP as one of the leading UN bodies in the field of environment should be strengthened.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/1997/100150597.htm (2843 words)

	Iraq - General Assembly
		The SR stated that such killings are most notable because of their apparent intent to violate, by means of terror, the freedoms of opinion and expression of particular groups or the population as a whole.
		The government's refusal over five years to cooperate with the UN and take advantage of the "oil-for-food" resolutions is noted, as well as its failure to ensure the end of the sanctions by complying with relevant Security Council resolutions.
		The resolution was adopted by a vote of 92 in favour, 2 opposed, 56 abstentions.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1998/vol3/iraqga.htm (537 words)

	Global Cooperation After 11 September Attacks Seen as Positive Sign by General Assembly Speakers; Call for Similar ...
		NEW YORK, 14 November (UN Headquarters) -- The new spirit of cooperation following the attacks of 11 September reflected the most positive feature of globalization, the President of Palau, told the General Assembly this morning as it continued its general debate, during which Member States may address any item on the Assembly’s agenda.
		In the Caribbean, relevant General Assembly resolutions on lifting the embargo against Cuba should be implemented.
		There must be a just settlement, based on United Nations resolutions and the norms of justice and legitimacy, of the oldest refugee problem in modern history, that of the Palestinian people.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2001/ga9965.html (5539 words)

	JRH speech to UN General Assembly
		The UN and its constituting members have been very generous and remain committed to completing the job of nation-building we started together in 2000.
		But it is too convenient to lay the blame on the UN when, in most past cases of alleged inaction by the UN, the real blame lies at the door of the powers that be.
		As a small nation we are baffled by the apparent inability of world leaders to grasp the magnitude of the problems we face as a human family inhabiting a shrinking planet under pressure from industrialisation, pollution and competition for scarce resources such as land and water.
	www.etan.org /et2004/october/01-03/29jrhspch.htm (4583 words)

	Inquiry Cites Security Council, General Assembly in U.N. Failures
		The committee said the "most notable" of the organization's structural faults is "a grievous absence of effective auditing and management controls." The General Assembly's efforts to correct the situation have so far "fallen far short of what is needed."
		As the program continued, the huge flow of money far exceeded that of other U.N. operations and thousands of staff were hired and deployed, overtaxing weak management and oversight and accountability, it said.
		By the program's design, U.N. inspectors were charged only with the inspection of oil and goods financed under the program.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/un/un-050907-usia01.htm (1042 words)

	2005 General Assembly Sixth Committee Background Guide
		The role of the GA Sixth within the UN is to advise the General Assembly on international legal issues.
		International efforts regarding cloning—this topic addresses the difficulties Members of the UN are encountering with regard to a ban on human cloning.
		While the vast majority of UN Member States agree that human cloning for the purpose of creating fully functioning human beings should be universally banned, questions about the legality of non-reproductive experimentation remain unresolved on the international level.
	www.sinclair.edu /organizations/daymunc/pub/daymunc/2005bgga6.htm (2766 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Key UN resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
		Both the United Nations general assembly and its 15-member security council, the body with the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security, have passed resolutions relating to the division of the former British mandate of Palestine and the subsequent Arab-Israeli conflict since the 1947.
		Unlike that body, the general assembly does not have the power to make its resolutions legally binding under the UN charter.
		Passed in 1975, resolution 3379 stated that Zionism to be a form of racism and racial discrimination.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1068517,00.html (606 words)

	Disarmament Diplomacy: - UN First Committee General Debate
		While the convening of a fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament had been the subject of careful study, there had been no tangible progress to that end, despite last year's consensus resolution on the question.
		The most notable development in the sphere of conventional weapons was the entry into force of the Ottawa Convention...
		He drew attention to his country's submission of a resolution in each of the past two years concerning the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons.
	www.acronym.org.uk /31first.htm (19368 words)

	Empire Notes
		The country began researching manufacturing techniques for the drugs in the early 1990s and was preparing to market a generic version of the drug didanosine when Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., the drug's manufacturer, served notice that it held a valid patent on the drug.
		The Bush administration has also argued that the generic versions of the drug are potentially unsafe and that they are not as effective as the branded versions, a claim most experts dispute.
		The UN has also expressed concern that the political ground has not been adequately prepared for a parliamentary election, as the majority of irregular militia forces that serve provincial strongmen have not been disarmed.
	www.empirenotes.org /july04.html (13046 words)

	UN Instruments
		The General Assembly also welcomed the initiative in its resolution 48/103 of 20 December 1993.
		The geographic expansion of the activities of the most notable transnational criminal organizations were described with respect to the accumulation of proceeds not only from drug trafficking but also from all serious crimes for profit, national and transnational, as well as from other methods of serious economic distortion such as usury.
		The increased professionalism of their activities and sophistication of the schemes used to launder the proceeds of those crimes were described, and the progressive separation of money-laundering as an independent criminal service.
	www.imolin.org /imolin/en/courmaye.html (3421 words)

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