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

Nuremberg Tribunal The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany invaded ...

** 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 L ...

. ** 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. *1948 ** Resolution 194: Recommends the "

Right of return The right of return is a principle in international law which guarantees everyone's right of voluntary return to, or re-entry to, their country of origin or of citizenship. The right of return is part of the broader human rights concept freedom ...

" for

Palestinian refugee Palestinian refugees are citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and their descendants, who fled or were expelled from their country over the course of the 1947–49 Palestine war (1948 Palestinian exodus) and the Six-Day War (1967 Palestinian exodus ...

s. ** 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

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

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 military offensive in which large numbers of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory owned by another such entity, generally with the objective of either: conquering; liberating or re-establishing co ...

of Korea and their large-scale attacks upon United Nations forces there...has itself engaged in

aggression Aggression is overt or covert, often harmful, social interaction with the intention of inflicting damage or other harm upon another individual; although it can be channeled into creative and practical outlets for some. It may occur either reacti ...

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 (

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) 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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for

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casualties of the

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. * 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 a ...

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 ''metropole, metropolit ...

is, and what

self-determination The right of a people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law (commonly regarded as a '' jus cogens'' rule), binding, as such, on the United Nations as authoritative interpretation of the Charter's norms. It st ...

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

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring count ...

in response to the governments policy of

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

.'' *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 Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary, and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 ...

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 List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, sli ...

. 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), ...

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

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. * 1973 ** Resolution 3068:

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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: Defined

. *1975 ** Resolution 3379: ''

Zionism Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after ''Zion'') is a Nationalism, 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 ...

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 ** 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 of

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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 Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal, extermination, deportation or population trans ...

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 Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption m ...

and

bribery Bribery is the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty. With regard to governmental operations, essentially, bribery is "Co ...

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 The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities. Parties to the convention are required to promote, p ...

. *2007 **Resolution 61/295: Establishes the

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. ** Resolution 61/255: Condemned without any reservation any

denial of the Holocaust Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements: * ...

**UN moratorium on the death penalty, Resolution 62/149: Called for a universal Moratorium (law), moratorium on capital punishment 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. **United Nations General Assembly Resolution 62/167, Resolution 62/167: Expressed serious concern about human rights in North Korea. *2008 **United Nations General Assembly Resolution 62/63, 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. **United Nations General Assembly Resolution 62/243, Resolution 62/243: The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. * 2012 **United Nations General Assembly Resolution 67/19, Resolution 67/19: Recognizing the State of Palestine as a non-member observer state. * 2014 **United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262, Resolution 68/262: Territorial integrity of Ukraine. * 2015 ** Resolution 69/292 - Development of an international legally-binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 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 **United Nations General Assembly resolution ES-10/19, Resolution ES-10/19: Status of Jerusalem * 2018 **United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/72/191, Resolution 72/191 "Situation of Human Rights in the Syrian Arab Republic" **United Nations General Assembly Resolution 73/5, Resolution 73/5: State of Palestine, Palestine is granted enhanced privileges in General Assembly work and sessions when it assumes 2019 Group of 77 chair. **United Nations General Assembly resolution ES-10/L.23, 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 **United Nations General Assembly resolution A/ES-11/L.1, Resolution ES-11/1: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Aggression against Ukraine **United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/2, Resolution ES-11/2: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Humanitarian consequences of the aggression against Ukraine **United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/3, Resolution ES-11/3: War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Suspension of the rights of membership of the Russian Federation in the Human Rights Council **United Nations General Assembly Resolution 76/262, Resolution 76/262: Standing mandate for a General Assembly debate when a veto is cast in the Security Council **United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/4, Resolution ES-11/4: Annexation of southeastern Ukraine by the Russian Federation, Territorial integrity of Ukraine: defending the principles of the Charter of the United Nations

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