Uniting for Peace
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The Uniting for Peace Resolution (United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution 377 A) states that in any cases where the UN Security Council, because of a lack of unanimity among its five permanent members (P5), fails to act as required to maintain international security and peace, UNGA shall consider the matter immediately and may issue appropriate recommendations to UN members for collective measures, including the use of armed force when necessary, in order to maintain or restore international security and peace.
The Uniting for Peace Resolution was adopted 3 November 1950, after fourteen days of UNGA discussions, by a vote of 52 to 5, with 2 abstentions. It was designed to provide the UN with an alternative avenue for action when at least one P5 member uses its veto to obstruct the Security Council from carrying out its functions mandated by the UN Charter.
To facilitate prompt action by UNGA in the case of a deadlocked Security Council, the Resolution created the mechanism of the emergency special session (ESS). Emergency special sessions have been convened under this procedure on eleven occasions, with the most recent convened in February 2022, to address Russia's invasion of Ukraine. However, unlike the preceding ESSs, the tenth ESS and the eleventh ESS have been 'adjourned' and 'resumed' on numerous occasions over the past several years, and remain temporarily adjourned. Indeed, more than ten separate 'plenary meetings' have been held by UNGA, whilst sitting in the tenth ESS since 2000, and over twenty, whilst sitting in the eleventh ESS since 2022.[1]
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