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[4] 21 other Arab countries worked on the resolution draft. [5] [6] [7] The resolution has 47 sponsoring states (shown in voting table below). [8] [9] The Canadian U.N. delegation proposed an amendment to the resolution condemning Hamas. Although a majority of U.N. members supported this, the amendment fell short of the necessary two-thirds ...
An extraordinary general meeting, commonly abbreviated as EGM, is a meeting of members of an organisation, shareholders of a company, or employees of an official body that occurs at an irregular time. [1]
On 27 October 2023, the General Assembly passed resolution ES-10/21 calling for a humanitarian truce with a 121 votes for, 14 against and 44 abstentions. [1] ES-10/22 followed a similar motion calling for an immediate ceasefire and release of hostages in the UN Security Council (UNSC) proposed by the UAE. The resolution received 13 votes for ...
United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES‑10/19 is an emergency session resolution declaring the status of Jerusalem as Israel's capital as "null and void". [1] It was adopted by the 37th Plenary meeting of the tenth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly [2] during the tenure of the seventy-second session of the United Nations General Assembly on 21 December 2017.
On 18 December 2007, the United Nations General Assembly voted 104 to 54 in favour of resolution A/RES/62/149, which proclaims a global moratorium on the death penalty, with 29 abstentions (as well as 5 absent at the time of the vote). [1] Italy had proposed and sponsored this resolution.
Furthermore, the commissioner-general of the UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, said that 133 of its workers had been killed, and 85% of the population, equivalent to 1.9 million people, had been displaced, some of them multiple times. [95] [96] The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Ukraine introduced the resolution "Humanitarian consequences of the aggression against Ukraine" (A/ES-11/2) and South Africa introduced the resolution "Humanitarian situation emanating out of the conflict in Ukraine" (A/ES-11/3). [32] On 24 March, resolution A/ES-11/2 received 140 votes in favour and 5 against, with 38 countries abstaining. [33]
United Nations Security Council resolution 1121, adopted unanimously on 22 July 1997, after recalling that the maintenance of international peace and security was one of the main purposes of the United Nations, the council established the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal, named after the second Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, awarded posthumously to United Nations peacekeepers.