A United Nations General Assembly resolution is a decision or declaration voted on by all member states of the

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in the

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. General Assembly resolutions usually require a simple majority (50 percent of all votes plus one) to pass. However, if the General Assembly determines that the issue is an "important question" by a simple majority vote, then a two-thirds majority is required; "important questions" are those that deal significantly with the maintenance of international peace and security, admission of new members to the United Nations, suspension of the rights and privileges of membership, the expulsion of members, operation of the trusteeship system, or budgetary questions. Although General Assembly resolutions are generally

non-binding A non-binding resolution is a written motion adopted by a deliberative body that can or cannot progress into a law. The substance of the resolution can be anything that can normally be proposed as a motion. This type of resolution is often used ...

towards member states, internal resolutions may be binding on the operation of the General Assembly itself, for example with regard to budgetary and procedural matters.

Notable General Assembly resolutions

*1946 ** Resolution 1: Established the

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(UNAEC) "to deal with the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy" and tasked to "make specific proposals... for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction", among other issues regarding nuclear technology. ** Resolution 39: Relations of Members of the United Nations with

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. ** Resolution 40: Voting procedure in the

Security Council The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, an ...

. ** Resolution 64: Establishment of the

Trusteeship Council The United Nations Trusteeship Council (french: links=no, Conseil de tutelle des Nations unies) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, established to help ensure that trust territories were administered in the best interests ...

. ** Resolution 95: Affirmation of the principles of international law recognized by the Charter of the

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** Resolution 96: The crime of

Genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Lat ...

. ** Resolution 100:

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. *1947 ** Resolution 177: International Law Commission was directed to "formulate the principles of international law recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the judgment of the Tribunal". This resulted in the creation of the Nuremberg Principles. **

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: The 1947 UNGA 'Partition resolution' regarding the

British Mandate of Palestine British Mandate of Palestine or Palestine Mandate most often refers to: * Mandate for Palestine: a League of Nations mandate under which the British controlled an area which included Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan. * Mandatory P ...

. *1948 **

Resolution 194 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 is a resolution adopted near the end of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. The Resolution defines principles for reaching a final settlement and returning Palestine refugees to their homes. Article 11 o ...

: Recommends the " Right of return" for Palestinian refugees. ** Resolution 217:

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** Resolution 260: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. *1949 ** Resolution 273: ''Admits the State of Israel to membership in the United Nations.'' ** Resolution 289: On the Question of the disposal of the former Italian colonies: recommending that

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should be independent not later than January 1, 1952 ** Resolution 303: On the Question of an international regime for the Jerusalem area and the protection of the Holy Places: restated the United Nation's stance on corpus separatum for Jerusalem. *1950 ** Resolution 377 A: The "Uniting for Peace" Resolution ** Resolution 491: Admission of

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to membership in the

. *1951 ** Resolution 498: calling on the People's Republic of China to cease all hostilities on the

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... its armed forces continue their

invasion An invasion is a Offensive (military), military offensive in which large numbers of combatants of one geopolitics, geopolitical Legal entity, entity aggressively enter territory (country subdivision), territory owned by another such entity, gen ...

of Korea and their large-scale attacks upon United Nations forces there...has itself engaged in aggression in KoreaJohn Kuo-Chang Wang
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/ref> ** Resolution 500: Recommend general trade embargo against People's Republic of China and North Korea for their aggression in Korea *1952 ** Resolution 505: Threats to the political independence and territorial integrity of China ( Republic of China) and to the peace of the

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, resulting from

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violations of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance of 14 August 1945 and from Soviet violations of the

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* 1955 **Resolution 977(X): Establishing the

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in Busan, South Korea for

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casualties of the

Korean War , date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...

. * 1956 ** Resolution 997(ES-I):Question considered by the Security Council at its 749th and 750th meetings, held on 30 October 1956 *1960 ** Resolution 1514: ''Declaration on the granting of independence to

colonial Colonial or The Colonial may refer to: * Colonial, of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony or colony (biology) Architecture * American colonial architecture * French Colonial * Spanish Colonial architecture Automobiles * Colonial (1920 au ...

countries and peoples.'' ** Resolution 1541: United Nations definition of what a

colony In modern parlance, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the '' metropolitan state' ...

is, and what self-determination is. ''Principles which should guide Members in determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73 e of the Charter.'' *1961 ** Resolution 1631: ''Admission of Mauritania to membership in the

.'' *1962 ** Resolution 1761: ''Recommended sanctions against

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in response to the governments policy of

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.'' *1963 ** Resolution 1962: One of the earliest resolutions governing

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. ** Resolution 1991: Amended the UN Charter, enlarging the

to fifteen members. *1971 ** Resolution 2758: ''Expelled the collective representatives of Chiang Kai-shek and replaced it with the representatives of

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It also recognized the PRC as the sole legal authority of China.'' (See

China and the United Nations China is one of the charter members of the United Nations and is one of five permanent members of its Security Council. One of the victorious Allies of the Second World War (the Chinese theatre of which was the Second Sino-Japanese War), the ...

) *1972 ** Resolution 3010: Adopted to make the year 1975

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. * 1973 ** Resolution 3068: International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid adopted and opened for signature, and ratification by Resolution 3068, 30 November 1973, and entered into force on 18 July 1976. *1974 ** Resolution 3275: Adopted 1975,

, as a period of intensified action with regards to equal rights and recognition of women. **

Resolution 3314 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX) (Definition of Aggression) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 14, 1974 as a non-binding recommendation to the United Nations Security Council on the definition it ...

: Defined aggression. *1975 **

Resolution 3379 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted on 10 November 1975 by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), "determine that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination". It was revoked in 1991 with UN General Assembly R ...

: ''

Zionism Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after '' Zion'') is a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is known in Je ...

is a form of racism and racial discrimination''; revoked by Resolution 46/86. ** Resolution 3520: Adopted the World Plan of Action and related resolutions from the International Women's Year Conference. *1976 ** Resolution 31/72: Adopted the 1977

Environmental Modification Convention The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD), formally the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques is an international treaty prohibiting the military or other hostile use ...

** Resolution 31/136: Adopted the period from 1976 to 1985 as the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace. *1978 ** Resolution 33/75: Urges the Security Council, especially its permanent members, to take all necessary measures for ensuring UN decisions on the maintenance of international peace and security. United States and Israel were the only no vote. *1979 ** Resolution 34/37: Deplored Moroccan

occupation Occupation commonly refers to: *Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment *Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces *Military occupation, th ...

Western Sahara Western Sahara ( '; ; ) is a disputed territory on the northwest coast and in the Maghreb region of North and West Africa. About 20% of the territory is controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), while the ...

and urged to terminate it. *1981 ** United Nations General Assembly Resolution 36/3: Admission of

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to membership in the

. *1989 ** Resolution 44/34: The UN

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Convention *1991 ** Resolution 46/86: revoked Resolution 3379. *1992 **Resolution 47/90, made 16 December 1992, the first of a series of resolutions concerning

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-contro ...

s in social development listed in Resolution 62/128 (see below). *1993 ** Resolution 47/121: condemned ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian Muslims by the Bosnian Serbs as genocide, (fourteen years later the

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ruled in the Bosnian Genocide Case of 2007, that ethnic cleansing was not enough in itself to be genocide, but that there must also be intent to kill a substantial part of the targeted group by the perpetrators). ** Resolution 48/114: Emergency international assistance to refugees and displaced persons in Azerbaijan. *1998 **Resolution 53/176 on action against corruption and bribery in international commercial transactions, 15 December 1998 *2000 **Resolution 54/205, Prevention of corrupt practices and illegal transfer of funds, 27 January 2000 ** Resolution 55/56: Introduced a process to certify the origin of rough diamonds from sources that are conflict-free * 2005 **Resolution 60/7: designated the

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*2006 ** Resolution 60/285: The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. ** Resolution 61/106: Adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. *2007 **Resolution 61/295: Establishes the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. ** Resolution 61/255: Condemned without any reservation any denial of the Holocaust ** Resolution 62/149: Called for a universal moratorium on

capital punishment Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

with a view to total abolition, and in the meantime, respect for the rights of those on death row. Calls on states which have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it. ** Resolution 62/167: Expressed serious concern about

human rights in North Korea The human rights record of North Korea is often considered to be the worst in the world and has been globally condemned, with the United Nations, the European Union and groups such as Human Rights Watch all critical of the country's record. Most ...

. *2008 ** Resolution 62/63: Criminal Accountability of UN Officials and Experts on Mission. **Resolution 62/128, Cooperatives in social development, adopted having recalled the following earlier resolutions on the same subject: resolutions 47/90 of 16 December 1992, 49/155 of 23 December 1994, 51/58 of 12 December 1996, 54/123 of 17 December 1999, 56/114 of 19 December 2001, 58/131 of 22 December 2003 and 60/132 of 16 December 2005. ** Resolution 62/243: The situation in

Nagorno-Karabakh Nagorno-Karabakh ( ) is a landlocked region in the South Caucasus, within the mountainous range of Karabakh, lying between Lower Karabakh and Syunik, and covering the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus mountains. The region is m ...

. * 2012 ** Resolution 67/19: Recognizing the State of Palestine as a non-member observer state. * 2014 ** Resolution 68/262: Territorial integrity of

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. * 2015 ** Resolution 69/292 - Development of an international legally-binding instrument under the

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on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. **Resolution 70/1 - Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development * 2017 ** Resolution ES-10/19: Status of

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

* 2018 ** Resolution 72/191 "Situation of Human Rights in the Syrian Arab Republic" ** Resolution 73/5: Palestine is granted enhanced privileges in General Assembly work and sessions when it assumes 2019 Group of 77 chair. ** Resolution ES-10/L.23 "Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory" and "Protection of the Palestinian civilian population" * 2022 ** Resolution ES-11/1: Aggression against Ukraine ** Resolution ES-11/2: Humanitarian consequences of the aggression against Ukraine ** Resolution ES-11/3: Suspension of the rights of membership of the Russian Federation in the Human Rights Council ** Resolution 76/262: Standing mandate for a General Assembly debate when a veto is cast in the Security Council ** Resolution ES-11/4: Territorial integrity of Ukraine: defending the principles of the Charter of the United Nations

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