In 1993, the UN Security Council adopted four resolutions calling for the cessation of hostilities, unimpeded access for international humanitarian relief efforts, and the eventual deployment of a peacekeeping force in the region.

The Soviets boycotted UN Security Council meetings while protesting the Council's failure to seat the People's Republic of China and, thus, did not veto the Council's approval of UN action to oppose the North Korean invasion.

Chile assumed a two-year non-permanent position on the UN Security Council in January 2003 and is an active member of the UN family of agencies, serving as a member of the Commission on Human Rights and participating in UN peacekeeping activities.

Costa Rica strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement UN Security Council Resolution 940, which led to the restoration of the democratically elected Government of Haiti in October 1994.

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On 14 July 1960, in response to requests by Prime Minister Lumumba, the UN Security Council adopted United Nations Security Council Resolution 143.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 161 of 21 February 1961, called for the withdrawal of Belgian officers from command positions in the ANC, and the training of new Congolese officers with UN help.

As a member of CARICOM, in July 1994 Dominica strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement UN Security Council Resolution 940, designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti's de facto authorities from power.

* 1992 – UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.

Ecuador has also been an elective member of the UN Security Council.

Due to his frustration with the stalemated peace process with Ethiopia, the President of Eritrea Isaias Afewerki wrote a series of Eleven Letters to the UN Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

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The United States accepted the role of Trustee of this, the only United Nations Trusteeship to be designated as a " Security Trusteeship ", whose ultimate disposition was to be determined by the UN Security Council.

As a member of CARICOM Grenada strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement UN Security Council Resolution 940, designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti's de facto authorities from power.

It served twice on the UN Security Council ( 1975 – 76 and 1982 – 83 ).

The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the American National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ agents about the wire-tapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.

During 1995-96, Honduras, a founding member of the United Nations, for the first time served as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.

Neither Britain nor the UN Security Council acted to implement the resolution and Britain continued detaining Jews attempting to enter Palestine.

In December 2001, after the Taliban government was toppled and the new Afghan government under Hamid Karzai was formed, the International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF ) was established by the UN Security Council to help assist the Karzai administration and provide basic security to the Afghan people.

Nations who recognize the Council as the government of Libya may not have to go through the process of obtaining UN security council's approval to establish a " No-fly zone " if the Council requests one, as this could count as a " friendly request ".

Although the Colombian Government ratified the 1988 UN Convention on Narcotics in 1994 — the last of the Andean governments to do so — it took important reservations, notably to the anti-money-laundering measures, asset forfeiture and confiscation provisions, maritime interdiction, and extradition clauses.

Other United Nations documents and decisions related to child support enforcement include the 1956 New York Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance created under the auspices of the United Nations, which was ratified by the vast majority of UN member nations.

* The UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( originally comprising Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau ), after Allied military occupations, since 18 July 1947, had a dozen high commissioners, also presiding over the splitting off of Palau and Marshall Islands in 1980 and the 10 May 1979 granting of autonomy to the Federated States of Micronesia ( former Ponape, Truk and Yap districts of the Trust Territory ) until on 3 November 1986 the Trust Territory was dissolved by the U. S. ( a single Director of the Office of Transition, Charles Jordan, stepped in from 3 November 1986 – 30 September 1991, a while after the 22 December 1990 proclamation of final independence as the UN Security Council ratified the termination of US trusteeship ).

However, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (" now ratified by 135 countries "), while slow, is working on proposals which will make certain types of discrimination and treatment of widows ( such as violence and withholding property rights ) illegal in the countries that have joined CEDAW.

Under her leadership the human rights situation started to improve ; political prisoners were released, repressive laws were repealed and all relevant UN Conventions were ratified.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ratified the International Convention against Torture in October 1997 according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Two states have signed but not ratified while 34 UN states are non-signatories, making a total of 36 United Nations states not party.

The Declaration is not constitutional and has not been ratified by the UN General Assembly, unlike the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The cooperation between the two coast guards will start in May 2009, with the protests of the international group for the protection of human rights, criticizing the push-back policy of migrants-including potential asylum seekers-to Libya, which had not ratified the UN Convention on refugees ; the policy is later suspended but not officially repelled.

These examples of the laws of war address declaration of war, ( the UN charter ( 1945 ) Art 2, and some other Arts in the charter, curtails the right of member states to declare war ; as does the older and toothless Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 for those nations who ratified it but used against Germany in the Nuremberg War Trials ), acceptance of surrender and the treatment of prisoners of war ; the avoidance of atrocities ; the prohibition on deliberately attacking civilians ; and the prohibition of certain inhumane weapons.

India has not ratified the UN treaty against torture.

All UN member states have ratified the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, with the exception of the United States and Somalia, which aims at reducing violations to a number of rights relevant to reducing child poverty in different countries ).

* The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW ), adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 18, 1979, went into effect by its own terms after being ratified by at least 20 nations.

Concerned that partition would severely damage Anglo-Arab relations, Britain refused to cooperate with the UN, denying the UN access to Palestine during the period between the adoption of Resolution 181 ( II ) and the termination of the British Mandate.

In March 1948, the United States proposed that the territory of Mandatory Palestine be placed under UN Trusteeship with the termination of the British Mandate in May 1948 ( see American trusteeship proposal for Palestine ).

However, as former UN drug official Cindy Fazey notes, the Convention has no termination clause, and therefore would remain in effect even if only one signatory remained.

* 1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.

The sole exception to the transformation of League of Nations mandates into UN trusteeships was that South Africa refused to place South-West Africa under trusteeship.

Note: the Compact of Free Association with the U. S., entered into after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994, provides Palau with up to $ 700 million in U. S. aid over 15 years in return for furnishing military facilities.

To the extent that Italy held the territory by UN mandate, the trusteeship provisions gave the Somalis the opportunity to gain experience in political education and self-government.

The TTPI entered UN trusteeship on July 18, 1947 and was designated a " strategic area " in its 1947 trusteeship agreement.

The UN opted instead in 1949 to grant Italy trusteeship of Italian Somaliland for a period of ten years, after which time the region would be independent.

Italy also lost its colonial Empire, except Somalia, which formed the object of a UN trusteeship mandate, expiring in 1960.

One consequence of the Secretary's confidence in the UN Assistant Secretary has been to contribute to the consistent and seemingly unavoidable preoccupation of the latter with the political, as opposed to the economic, social, trusteeship, technical, and other facets, of his responsibilities.

* 13 December-South Africa refuses to place South-West Africa under UN trusteeship

By statute in 1955, French Togoland became an autonomous republic within the French union, although it retained its UN trusteeship status.

On April 27, 1960, in a smooth transition, Togo severed its constitutional ties with France, shed its UN trusteeship status, and became fully independent under a provisional constitution with Olympio as president.

Pro-independence groups claim that UN resolution 1608 21 April 1961, which required the UK, the Government of the Southern Cameroons and Republic of Cameroun to engage in talks with a view to agreeing measures for union of the two countries, was not implemented, and that the Government of the United Kingdom was negligent in terminating its trusteeship without ensuring that proper arrangements were made.

In 1950, the UN confirmed that South Africa's legal administration was still in force and that it could not officially compel the latter to open a new trusteeship agreement.