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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez denounces President Bush from the podium of the UN General Assembly, calling him ``the devil himself" and ``a world dictator" in an impassioned speech that drew both laughter and applause. |
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The U.N. Security Council unanimously approves a statement demanding that Iran suspend uranium enrichment. |
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The UN Commission on Human Rights releases a 54 page report stating that the U.S. government should release all enemy combatants it's holding at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or try them. It also recommends closing the jail "without further delay." As of October 2005, roughly 520 people were being detained ... |
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan chooses Mark Malloch Brown as his new chief of staff, replacing Iqbal Riza who announced his retirement. |
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The death toll for the Asian Tsunami reaches 23,000+ and the United Nations begins to warn of a health epidemic crisis. |
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The United Nations Security Council issues a statement calling on Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon, in accordance with a resolution it passed in September. Syria first sent troops into Lebanon in 1976, at the beginning of the civil war there. The statement is unanimous, thus obtaining the ba ... |
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Japan tells the United Nations it should get a permanent seat on the Security Council because of its participation in the multinational force in Iraq. |
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Kofi Annan announces investigation that Saddam Hussein reaped millions of dollars from the U.N. oil-for-food program. |
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United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq commence interviews of Iraqi weapons scientists. |
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Switzerland votes to join the United Nations. |
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The United Nations and its secretary-general Kofi Annan are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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Hans Blix becomes executive chairman of Unmovic, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission. |
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Kofi Annan begins his first term as U.N. Secretary General. He is the first to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff. |
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The United Nations General Assembly condemns Sudan for violations of Human Right (102 votes for/ 7 against). |
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The People's Republic of China is seated at the United Nations Security Council for the first time. |
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The Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors ends with a United Nations-brokered cease-fire. Israel had captured the Old City of East Jerusalem on June 7th, and by the 11th had more doubled in size with the acquistion of the Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza, and Sinai pennisula. |
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Japan is admitted to the United Nations. |
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The United Nations condemns the People's Republic of China as an aggressor in the Korean conflict
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The United Nations Headquarters Officially opens in New York. |
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The counry of Israel joins the United Nations |
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In spite of strong Arab opposition, the United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state. |
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The United Nations accepts a gift of 6 Manhattan blocks from John D Rockefeller Jr.
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The newly formed United Nations meets for the first time in San Francisco, California. Fifty nations send representatives. |
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Portugal enters the war against Nazi Germany and is admitted as a founding member of the United Nations. |
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