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 United Nations General Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United Nations General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.
At the first Special Session of the UN General Assembly held in 1947, Oswaldo Aranha, then head of the Brazilian delegation to the UN, began a tradition that has remained until today whereby the first speaker at this major international forum is always a Brazilian.
It is made up of all United Nations member states and meets in regular yearly sessions under a president elected from among the representatives.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UN_General_Assembly

  
 United Nations General Assembly observers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In addition to the current 191 member states, the United Nations welcomes several other international agencies, entities, and one non-member state (for several years prior to their admission after a referendum in 2002, Switzerland was also an observer state).
They have an assured presence at General Assembly meetings, unless they are expelled.
Non-member states are recognized as sovereign entities, like any actual member, and are free to join the General Assembly membership at their discretion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_observers

  
 UNITED NATIONS AND APARTHEID - A CHRONOLOGY
The General Assembly adopted resolution 44(I), expressing the opinion that the treatment of Indians in South Africa should be in conformity with the international obligations under the agreements concluded between the two Governments, and the relevant provisions of the United Nations Charter.
The General Committee of the General Assembly did not support the request of the Union of South Africa that the Indian complaint be removed from the agenda on the grounds that the matter was essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of South Africa.
General Assembly adopted resolution 820 (IX) on apartheid by 35 votes to 16, with 9 abstentions.
www.anc.org.za /un/un-chron.html

  
 Palestine-UN.org
The General Assembly, however, is the highest, competent decision-maker with regard to the admission of observers (with the exception of non-member states).
With regard to inter-governmental organizations the Assembly adopted resolution 253 (III) of 1948, inviting the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States to be present as an observer at the sessions of the General Assembly.
Beginning 1974, with the invitation to the European Community (EC), the language of relevant resolutions developed into inviting the inter-governmental organizations to participate in the sessions and work of the General Assembly in the capacity of observer.
www.palestine-un.org /mission/2g_obs.html

  
 Assembly Authorizes Secretary-General to Establish Monitors for Fiji Elections
The resolution before the Assembly would respond to that request and give the Secretary-General the mandate to establish a United Nations Electoral Observer Mission, which would be instrumental not only in monitoring the general elections, but also in ensuring the acceptance of the election results by the people.
He was confident that the presence of the United Nations Observers would send a very positive signal for the acceptance of the election results and the future stability of the nation.
His country was very confident that the presence of the United Nations Observers would send a positive signal for the acceptance of the results and the future stability of the nation.
www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2001/ga9894.html

  
 United Nations Documents on Apartheid
Several Governments have expressed interest in sending observers in addition to those to be provided by the missions organized by the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity, the European Union or the Commonwealth and in having them included under the United Nations coordination umbrella.
The United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa was established in 1965 as a programme of legal, educational and relief assistance to political prisoners and their families and to refugees and other victims of apartheid.
Its original mandate was expanded by the General Assembly in its resolution 46/79 F of 13 December 1991 to include, inter alia, assistance to facilitate the reintegration of political prisoners and returning exiles into South African society, as well as legal assistance aimed at redressing continuing adverse effects of apartheid laws.
www.anc.org.za /un/undocs4a.html

  
 Frequently Asked Questions
In December 1991, the infamous 1975 "Zionism equals racism" resolution was repealed by the General Assembly.
Nonetheless, the UN General Assembly passes annual resolutions that seek to prejudge the outcome of negotiations by proposing specific solutions to issues like Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, settlements, refugees and other issues meant to be resolved through bilateral talks.
Forgetting that it was the Arabs who rejected General Assembly Resolution 181 in 1948 and prevented its implementation, they launched an international diplomatic campaign to revive 181 as a basis to create a Palestinian state.
www.palestinefacts.org /pf_faq_palestine_un_anti_israel_bias.php

  
 Refenrence document on civil society participation
These rules were reviewed by the General Assembly in 1968 in resolution 1296, which became the basis for establishing criteria for the participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the United Nations, which remained in use for almost three decades.
Conference Secretariat: The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund was appointed as Secretary-General of the Conference and the Director of the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Development as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Conference.
Non-governmental organizations in general consultative status, special consultative status and on the Roster, that express their wish to attend the relevant international conferences convened by the United Nations and the meetings of the preparatory bodies of the said conferences shall as a rule be accredited for participation.
www.itu.int /wsis/docs/background/general/reports/civilsociety1.htm

  
 Equipo Nizkor - United Nations General Assembly Resolution 377, "Uniting For Peace".
Invites each Member of the United Nations to survey its resources in order to determine the nature and scope of the assistance it may be in a position to render in support of any recommendations of the Security Council or of the General Assembly for the restoration of international peace and security;
(b) They advise the General Assembly and, when it is not in session, the Members of the United Nations, as soon as appropriate, of the results of their consultations.
Recalling its resolution 290 (IV) entitled "Essentials of peace", which states that disregard of the Principles of the Charter of the United Nations is primarily responsible for the continuance of international tension, and desiring to contribute further to the objectives of that resolution,
www.derechos.org /human-rights/irak/doc/377uneng.html

  
 Fifty-seventh Session of the General Assembly
Developed for the internet by the UN Website Section, Department of Public Information and maintained jointly with the General Assembly Servicing Branch © United Nations 2002
Final list of all items considered in Plenary with documentation
www.un.org /ga/57

  
 Rotarians On The Internet - BreadBasket
The MUNA, as it is now referred to in the district, simulates the activities of the United Nations body, particularly the General Assembly and its committees.
We are pleased to invite your club to participate in the "MODEL UNITED NATIONS ASSEMBLY" (MUNA), a district project for the youth organized by the Rotary Club of Makati Jose P Rizal of District 3830.
The Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) started in 1997 as a club project of the Rotary Club of Makati Jose P. Rizal D3830 Manila, Philippines, under the Youth Avenue of Service.
www.roti.org /news/tt03.htm   (4675 words)

  
 United Nation Resolution 22 dicembre 1989
Decides to establish the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, which shall be open to all States Members of the United Nations or members of the specialized agencies, with the participation of observers, in accordance with the established practice of the General Assembly;
Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations to prepare a report for the organizational session of the Preparatory Committee containing recommendations on an adequate preparatory process, taking into account the provisions of the present resolution and the views expressed by Governments in the debate at the forty-fourth session of the General Assembly;
Requests the United Nations Environment Programme, as the main organ dealing with environmental issues, and other organs, organizations and programmes of the United Nations system, as well as other relevant intergovernmental organizations, to contribute fully to the preparations for the Conference on the basis of guidelines and requirements to be established by the Preparatory Committee;
www.provincia.fe.it /agenda21/documenti/united_nations.htm   (4675 words)

  
 CTBT Entry into Force
Under the Rules of the General Assembly of the United Nations and of the Genreral Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, for example, non-members may not vote though they are usually permitted to attend as observers.
Foreign ministers, and often prime ministers and presidents, attend part of the annual fall United Nations General Assembly debate and participate in many other meetings while in New York.
Moreover, the CTBT's history is inextricably linked to the UN General Assembly which began calling for an end to testing in the 1960s, which monitored the negotiations over the years and which voted overwhelmingly to approve the CTBT text in 1996.
www.clw.org /archive/coalition/rpteif99.htm   (7067 words)

  
 Palestine -- Call for UN Protection Force -- August 2001
In messages sent to the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr.
Harri Holkeri, to the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso of Colombia, and to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr.
Only protection forces with a clear mandate and authority on the basis of Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter will be able to stop the acts of state terrorism by the Israeli occupation army.
i-p-o.org /palestine-un-protection-force.htm   (422 words)

  
 A non-racist Zionism? (by Mohamed Sid-Ahmed) - Media Monitors Network
Observers believe that Israel's determination to oppose any reference to, let alone a re-tabling of, UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 equating Zionism with racism, which was adopted on 10 November 1975 and annulled on 17 December 1991, has been instrumental in determining the US position.
How can the United Nations, which has issued countless resolutions condemning doctrines of racial differentiation and superiority as morally reprehensible and socially unjust, refuse to even consider a resolution equating Zionism with racism?
The United States and a number of former European colonial powers are also opposing calls by many former colonies that the conference address the question of reparations for the suffering they endured at the hands of their colonial masters and their demand that its closing statement include an apology from the concerned Western powers.
www.mediamonitors.net /sidahmed9.html   (1268 words)

  
 Dispatch, Vol 3, No 42, October 19, 1992
Requests the United Nations Protection Force to monitor compliance with the ban on military flights, including the placement of observers where necessary at airfields in the territory of the former Yugoslavia; 3.
To address this concern, the United States was successful in gaining support at the UN General Assembly for a moratorium on all driftnet fishing; the moratorium will go into effect at the end of 1992.
Protection of the fragile environment of Antarctica is a priority for the United States.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/briefing/dispatch/1992/html/Dispatchv3no42.html   (4240 words)

  
 Covenant establishing the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
A Nation or People which becomes a member of the United Nations has the moral duty to remain a supporting member of the Organisation and to take part in the work of the Assembly without a vote.
The Steering Committee or the General Secretary may invite individuals, governmental or non governmental Organisations or States to attend as Observers to the regular sessions of the Assembly, subject to the approval of the Assembly.
The General Secretary shall serve as the executive director of the Organisation, and shall be elected by the Assembly for a three-year, renewable term.
www.southernnationalist.org /covenant_establishing_the_unrepr.htm   (1750 words)

  
 United Nations Daily Highlights, 98-10-14
The mission, consisting of 28 United Nations military observers, also holds regular meetings with local authorities in order to strengthen liaison, reduce tension, improve safety and security and promote confidence between the parties.
It also requested the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly's next session on the need to end the United States embargo against Cuba, and decided to include the matter on the agenda of that session.
With 157 countries voting in favour to 2 against -- the United States and Israel -- the Assembly reiterated its call on all States to refrain from promulgating and applying unilateral laws and measures that affect the free flow of international trade, in conformity with their obligations under the United Nations Charter and international law.
www.hri.org /news/world/undh/1998/98-10-14.undh.html   (3664 words)

  
 Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
The 59th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 2004
Thirty-seven are members of the United Nations, close to 28 percent of developing countries, and 20 percent of the UN's total membership.
Member States of AOSIS work together primarily through their New York diplomatic Missions to the United Nations.
www.sidsnet.org /aosis   (265 words)

  
 A/53/143
As a regional organization composed of and representing 25 member States which are also Members of the United Nations, ACS is convinced that possession of observer status in the United Nations General Assembly would be extremely beneficial to it.
Accordingly, on 24 February 1998, the bureau of the Ministerial Council of ACS asked that the necessary steps be taken in order that ACS be granted observer status in the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Bearing in mind that the purposes of the Association of Caribbean States, as enunciated in the convention by which it was established, and which has been registered with the Secretariat of the United Nations, are consistent with those of the United Nations,
www.un.org /ga/53/session/a53143.htm   (1109 words)

  
 Final Act of the Intergovernmental Conference
The Conference thanked the Secretary-General of the United Nations for agreeing to serve as depositary of the Convention and encouraged him to schedule a signing ceremony in New York in connection with the 53rd session of the United Nations General Assembly.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Conference has adopted this Final Act, which shall also be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The following intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations attended as observers:
www.reliefweb.int /telecoms/conference/icet98/final_act.html   (532 words)

  
 [15 Oct 1998] GA/9480 : ASSEMBLY GRANTS OBSERVER STATUS TO ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN STATES AND ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
The General Assembly this morning invited the Association of Caribbean States and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to participate in its sessions and work in the capacity of observers.
Introducing the draft on observer status for the OECD, Maciej Kozlowski, Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, speaking on behalf of the OECD, said the aims of the OECD were fully compatible with the principles of the United Nations, and the two would benefit from a closer relationship.
The Association was an inter-governmental organization which promoted goals largely coinciding with the goals of the United Nations.
www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1998/19981015.ga9480.html   (3453 words)

  
 ONUMOZ
ONUMOZ's verification of the arrangements for the cease-fire and other military aspects of the peace process in Mozambique was to be carried out mainly by teams of United Nations military observers at the 49 assembly areas in three military regions and elsewhere in the field.
While the Agreement did not provide a specific role for United Nations civilian police in monitoring the neutrality of the Mozambican police, the Secretary-General proposed to leave open the possibility of introducing a police component into ONUMOZ, should both Mozambican parties so request.
The Office of the Special Representative was to provide overall direction of United Nations activities in Mozambique and would be responsible for political guidance of the peace process, including facilitating the implementation of the General Peace Agreement, in particular by chairing the Supervisory and Monitoring Commission and its subsidiary joint commissions.
www.gmu.edu /departments/t-po/peace/onumoz.html   (3453 words)

  
 Member States
The admission of any such State to membership in the United Nations will be effected by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council."
Intergovernmental Organizations, and other Organizations or Entities having received a standing invitation to participate as observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and maintaining permanent offices at Headquarters.
" Membership in the United Nations is open to all peace-loving states which accept the obligations of the Charter and, in the judgement of the Organization, are willing and able to carry out these obligations.
www.un.org /members   (3453 words)

  
 Yearbook of the United Nations 1972 (excerpts) (31 December 1972)
Report of 2 November 1972 of Secretary-General concerning increase in number of United Nations observation posts and military observers in Israel-Lebanon sector, and addendum of 22 February 1973.
Letter of 19 July 1972 from Executive Secretary of OAU to United Nations (transmitting texts of resolutions adopted by Assembly of Heads of State and Government of OAU at its 9th session, Rabat Morocco, 12-15 June 1972, and by Council of Ministers of OAU, Rabat, 5-12 June 1972).
On 19 April 1972, the Security Council issued the text of a consensus reached by its members on the question of increasing the number of United Nations observers in the Israel-Lebanon sector in response to a request by Lebanon.
domino.un.org /UNISPAL.NSF/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/de9be8e9630430da8525631c0067f2e4!OpenDocument   (3453 words)

  
 MINURSO
In 1985, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in cooperation with the Chairman of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, initiated a joint mission of good offices in the search for a solution of the question of Western Sahara.
As a result of the Secretary-General's extensive discussions with the leaders of OAU and other interested parties, the question of OAU observers was resolved.
At the same time, the United Nations intensified work on other political and military aspects relevant to the fulfilment of the settlement plan.
www.gmu.edu /departments/t-po/peace/minurso.html   (3453 words)

  
 Mozambique
The mandate entrusted to the United Nations Operation in Mozambique (ONUMOZ) by the Security Council in resolution 797 (1992) of 16 December 1992 was to verify and monitor the implementation of the General Peace Agreement, signed by the Government of Mozambique and RENAMO at Rome on 4 October 1992.
Immediately after the results of the election were announced, my Special Representative declared the elections free and fair, based on reports from United Nations observers.
The elections were the culmination of a major success story in United Nations peacemaking, peace-keeping, and humanitarian and electoral assistance.
www.un.org /docs/SG/SG-Rpt/ch4d-17.htm   (3453 words)

  
 Folke Bernadotte - how did his life end? (s.c.nordic sources)
It gave the United Nations General Assembly his suggested terms for a peace that was to be imposed by the United Nations, and won the immediate support of the United States and Britain.
Bernadotte's book Instead of Arms was published in Sweden and the United States shortly after his death.
On 29 May 1948, the Security Council, in resolution 50, called for a cessation of hostilities in Palestine and decided that the truce should be supervised by the UN mediator, the Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte, with the assistence of a group of military observers.
www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/div/folke.html   (3453 words)

  
 Mafia Mayor Rudolf Giuliani tows diplomats illegally
As the mayor launched the latest broadside in the running war, angry foreign envoys voted 10 to 1 at a UN committee meeting to demand General Assembly action on the crackdown.And the city accused U.S. diplomats of secretly trying to back off the tougher stance in the face of international pressure.
Giuliani's agenda called for a $37 million increase in the subsidy for the United Nations Development Program, the world body's largest agency, and a $1.6 million federal tax break to finance a new city headquarters for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.
UN observers said the session was the most heavily attended meeting in years of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country.
www.geocities.com /mafia_mobsters_suck/mobbed_up_mayor_of_ny_city   (12884 words)

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