United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2065
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The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2065 was a
non-binding resolution 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 t ...
adopted on 16 December 1965 that recognized the existence of a sovereignty dispute between the
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
and
Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
over the
Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...
. The resolution invites the parties to find a peaceful solution to the dispute.


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United Nations General Assembly resolutions Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute 1965 in the United Nations December 1965 events United Kingdom and the United Nations Argentina and the United Nations {{UN-stub