Maintenance of International Security Resolutions

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 80 Maintenance of international security, published in 1994.

What else is in this group?

6 documents · 1994–1996

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1996).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1996	A/RES/50/80[B]	Maintenance of international security resolutions	—	–
1996	A/RES/50/80[A]	Maintenance of international security resolutions	—	–
1996	A/RES/50/80	Maintenance of international security resolutions	709	–
1994	A/RES/48/84[B]	Maintenance of international security resolutions	—	–
1994	A/RES/48/84[A]	Maintenance of international security resolutions	—	–

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

A

Reaffirms that, with the end of the cold war and of bipolar confrontation, the United Nations faces new tasks in the area of maintaining international peace and security;

Recognizes the need for effective, dynamic and flexible measures, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, to prevent and remove threats to peace and to suppress acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and in particular for measures to build, maintain or restore international peace and security;

Emphasizes its commitment to preventive diplomacy and the need to develop appropriate political mechanisms for the early solution of disputes and for the timely and peaceful resolution of any situation that might impair friendly relations among States, so as to preserve peace and strengthen international security;

A/47/277-S/24111.

A/C.1/47/7.

See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/48/27), para. 31 (para. 2 of the quoted text).

Stresses the need for the full implementation of Security Council resolutions;

Recognizes that it has an important role to play in helping to address situations that might lead to international friction or dispute, in close cooperation and coordination with the Security Council and the Secretary-General in accordance with the Charter;

Stresses the great importance of the role of regional arrangements and organizations and recognizes the need to coordinate their efforts with those of the United Nations in the maintenance of international peace and security;

Urges all States to strive for sustainable progress in the field of disarmament, arms control, non-proliferation, transparency in arms transfers and confidence-building measures, which can provide a crucial contribution to the maintenance of international peace and security;

Recognizes the importance of humanitarian concerns in conflict situations and welcomes the increasing role of the United Nations system in providing humanitarian assistance;

Decides to continue consideration of the question of maintenance of international security and invites Member States to provide their views on further consideration of this question;

Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth session the item entitled "Maintenance of international security".

B

Calls upon all Balkan States to endeavour to promote good-neighbourly relations and continually to undertake unilateral and joint activities, particularly confidence-building measures as appropriate, in particular within the framework of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe;

Emphasizes the importance for all Balkan States to promote mutual cooperation in all fields and, inter alia, in trade and other forms of economic cooperation, transport and telecommunications, protection of the environment, advancement of democratic processes, promotion of human rights and development of cultural and sport relations;

Stresses that closer engagement of Balkan States in cooperation arrangements on the European continent will favourably influence the political and economic situation in the region, as well as the good-neighbourly relations among Balkan States;

Requests the Secretary-General to seek the views of Member States, particularly those from the Balkan region, of international organizations, as well as of competent organs of the United Nations, on the development of good-neighbourly relations in the region and on measures and preventive activities aimed at creation of a stable zone of peace and cooperation in the Balkans by the year 2000;

Decides to consider the report of the Secretary-General on the subject at its fiftieth session.

Maintenance of International Security Resolutions

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What’s in this document?

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B

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