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United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus (UNBZC) 1964–present Cyprus: United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) UNDOF Zone on the Golan Heights: 1974–present Syria (controlled by Israel) United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) United Nations Administered Kosovo
Chapter XI of the UN Charter also includes a "Declaration on Non-Self-Governing Territories" that the interests of the occupants of dependent territories are paramount and requires member states of the United Nations in control of such territories to submit annual information reports concerning the development of those territories. Since 1946 ...
Pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, Kosovo was placed under the administration of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo in 1999. [64] Kosovo declared independence in 2008 , and it has received diplomatic recognition from 114 UN member states and the Republic of China , while 18 states have ...
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 ...
The United Nations (UN) is an ... in international territory with certain privileges extraterritorial to the United States, ... the Seabed Arms Control Treaty, ...
The official term used by the United Nations Security Council to describe Israeli-occupied territories is "the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem", which is used, for example, in Resolutions 446 (1979) Archived 2015-05-17 at the Wayback Machine, 452 (1979) Archived 2015-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, 465 (1980) and 484.
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
Tanganyika Territory: United Kingdom: From 20 July 1922 to 11 December 1946. It became a United Nations trust territory on 11 December 1946, and was granted internal self-rule on 1 May 1961. On 9 December 1961, it became independent while retaining the British monarch as nominal head of state, transforming into a republic on the same day the ...