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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2713 was adopted on 1 December 2023. According to the resolution, the Security Council voted to renew the sanctions regime on Somalia-based Al-Shabaab until 15 December 2024. [1] [2] France abstained from voting.
This list contains the 138 United Nations member states so far elected to the United Nations Security Council, including the five permanent members, all listed by number of years each country has so far spent on the UNSC. Of all the members, 6 have so far ceased to exist, leaving the list with 132 modern nations.
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
UN sanctions should not be confused with unilateral sanctions that are imposed by individual countries in furtherance of their strategic interests. [5] Typically intended as strong economic coercion, measures applied under unilateral sanctions can range between coercive diplomatic efforts, economic warfare, or as preludes to war.
In March 2022, in retaliation for sanctions imposed against Russia in response to their invasion of Ukraine, Russia added an additional 48 countries that had imposed sanctions against it to the unfriendly countries list. Creditors from countries on the list who sought to receive payments on debt were required to open a special bank account at a ...
May 10: United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-10/23: The United Nations General Assembly votes 143–9 with 25 abstentions to approve a resolution granting Palestine new rights and privileges, and to reconsider Palestine's request to become a UN member. The nine countries that opposed the resolution were Argentina, the Czech Republic ...
International sanctions against Syria; International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine; International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War; International sanctions against Iran; United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning the nuclear program of Iran; Iranian frozen assets; International sanctions against Iraq
In 1971, UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 recognised the PRC as the legal representative of China in the UN, and gave it the seat on the Security Council that had been held by the ROC, which was expelled from the UN altogether. [11] Both the ROC and the PRC continue to claim de jure sovereignty over the entirety of China (including Taiwan).