The Arab League members Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq refused to accept the UN partition plan and proclaimed the right of self-determination for the Arabs across the whole of Palestine.

Although Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, and their complete withdrawal was verified by the United Nations, Lebanon now considers the Shebaa farms — a 26-km² ( 10-mi² ) piece of land captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 war and considered by the UN to be disputed territory between Syria and Israel — to be Lebanese territory.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and others were among the countries that supported Kuwait in the UN coalition.

The UN has certified Israel's pullout, and regards the Shebaa Farms as occupied Syrian territory, while Lebanon and Syria have stated they regard the area as Lebanese territory.

On January 23, 2006 The UN Security Council called on the Government of Lebanon to make more progress in controlling its territory and disbanding militias, while also calling on Syria to cooperate with those efforts.

On October 7, 2004, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan reported to the Security Council that Syria had failed to withdraw its forces from Lebanon.

On October 19, 2004, following the UN Secretary General's report, the UN Security Council voted unanimously ( meaning that it received the backing of Algeria, the only Arab member of the Security Council ) to put out a statement calling on Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon, in accordance with Resolution 1559.

Eight months after Syria withdrew from Lebanon under intense domestic and international outrage over the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri the UN investigation has yet to be completed.

A campaign of bomb attacks against politicians, journalists and even civilian neighborhoods associated with the anti-Syrian camp has provoked much negative attention for Syria in the UN and elsewhere.

Following the February 1984 withdrawal of the UN Multinational Force from Beirut and the departure of most of Israel's forces from southern Lebanon a year later, Syria launched an unsuccessful initiative to reconcile warring Lebanese factions and establish a permanent cease-fire.

Following the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which left Israel in occupation of additional Syrian territory, Syria accepted UN Security Council Resolution 338, which signaled an implicit acceptance of Resolution 242.

The peace process collapsed following the outbreak of the second Palestinian ( Intifada ) uprising in September 2000, though Syria continues to call for a comprehensive settlement based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and the land-for-peace formula adopted at the 1991 Madrid conference.

As this report went to press, Syria announced it would respond diplomatically, and asked the UN Security Council to condemn the Israeli action.

Despite the efforts of the United States, Israel, Egypt, and others to obtain an extension of the UN role in observing the peace between Israel and Egypt, as called for under the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979, the mandate could not be extended because of the veto by the USSR in the security council, at the request of Syria.

After the Arab rejection of the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine ( UN General Assembly Resolution 181 ) that would have created an Arab state and a Jewish state side by side, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria attacked the state of Israel.

Syria formally accepted UN Security Council Resolution 338, the cease-fire at the end of the Yom Kippur War ( in 1973 ), which embraced resolution 242.

Convinced that Israel was determined to attack Syria, he asked UN Secretary-General U Thant to withdraw UNEF forces from Sinai.

A UN sanctions committee report stated that North Korea operates an international smuggling network for nuclear and ballistic missile technology, including to Burma, Syria, and Iran.

In August 2012, Ahtisaari opined on the sectarian violence in Syria and was mentioned as a possible replacement as Joint Envoy there to succeed former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

PSP participated in a number of governments, but, after the Syrian Accountability Act and the UN Resolution 1559 and the change of the balance of powers in the region after the occupation of Iraq, joined the opposition and took up a position opposed to the role of Syria in Lebanon's politics.

Syria would have liked to see the crippling UN sanctions on Iraq lifted.

It should be noted that Syria, which claims that the farms are Lebanese, has not presented a single document to the UN to prove it.

* July 5 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN inspection teams leave Iraq.

* July 11 – Bosnian Serbs march into Srebrenica while UN Dutch peacekeepers leave.

Iraqi officials confiscate documents from UN weapons inspectors, refusing to allow them to leave the site without turning over other documents.

Iraq permits the team to leave with the documents after the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions.

After deliberation, the UN Spacy orders the Macross to leave Earth as a means to get the Zentradi away from them.

When Nigeria demanded Gbagbo step down and the EU began imposing sanctions and freezing assets, Gbagbo demanded foreign troops ( by which he meant UN and French troops ) leave the country.

As George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein an ultimatum to leave power, the UN pulled out all the inspectors from Iraq.

A four-day standoff ensues, but Iraq permits the team to leave with the documents after a statement from the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions.

UN inspectors eventually leave when their safety is threatened, and the UN Security Council seems unwilling to support their efforts to enter the building with a threat of force.

* UN inspection teams leave Iraq.

The following war in the Balkans, the disintegration of Yugoslavia and sanctions imposed by the UN on all the countries of the former Yugoslavia, accelerated the process, which would, only thirteen months after the victory in Bari, practically leave Red Star without its entire generation of European and World champions and left the big question how many titles would this generation have won.

He eventually moved out of the church compound and into an apartment with other Dinka who were also seeking UN refugee status in order to leave Africa for the United States, Great Britain or Australia.

Soon after, the family and the hotel refugees are finally able to leave the besieged hotel in a UN convoy.

In the UAR, the USSR motivated Nasser to have the UN forces leave Sinai and Gaza Strip and to blockade the Straits of Tiran.

* Military action in Lebanon: After three decades, all Syrian troops leave Lebanon, fulfilling UN Security Council Resolution 1559.

* Military action in Lebanon: After three decades, all Syrian troops leave Lebanon, fulfilling UN Security Council Resolution 1559.

Pronk's story roughly parallels that of Mukesh Kapila, a previous UN employee who was forced to leave Sudan after making critical comments about the Darfur conflict.

On 7 December 2005, Eritrea banned UN helicopter flights and ordered Western members ( particularly from the United States, Canada, Europe and Russia ) of the UN peacekeeping mission on its border with Ethiopia to leave within 10 days, sparking concerns of further conflict with its neighbour.

President René Préval has expressed ambivalent feelings about the UN security presence, stating “ if the Haitian people were asked if they wanted the UN forces to leave they would say yes .” Survivors frequently blame the UN peace keepers for deaths of relatives.

Suspicious of the demand and realizing that if he flew to Moscow he may never be permitted to return to his UN duties or even leave the Soviet Union, he called his CIA contact and demanded that they fulfil their promise of political asylum.