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A United Nations resolution (or UN resolution) is a formal text adopted by a United Nations (UN) body. Any UN body can issue resolutions. In practice, most resolutions are issued by the Security Council or the General Assembly. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity. ...
This article concerns the legal meaning of the term resolution. ...
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the organ of the United Nations charged with maintaining peace and security among nations. ...
The United Nations General Assembly (GA) is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations. ...
The legal status of UN resolutions has been a matter of intense debate:
- Most experts consider most General Assembly resolutions to be non-binding (Articles 10 and 14 of the UN Charter refer to General Assembly "recommendations"), however some General Assembly resolutions dealing with matters internal to the United Nations, such as budgetary decisions or instructions to lower-ranking organs, are clearly binding on their addressees.
- Under Article 25 of the Charter, UN member states are bound to carry out "decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter". It has been debated what kind of Security Council resolutions are covered by this provision, in particular whether it only covered Security Council resolutions adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter ("Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression"). The International Court of Justice determined in its 1971 'Namibia' advisory opinion that the binding effect of Security Council decisions is not limited to resolutions adopted under this provision.
For more information on specific resolutions, see: This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
A United Nations General Assembly Resolution is voted on by all member states of the United Nations in the General Assembly and requires a simple majority(50% of all votes plus one) to pass (with the exception of important questions which require two-thirds majority) Notable General Assembly resolutions 1947...
A United Nations Security Council Resolution is voted on by the fifteen members of the United Nations Security Council, the most powerful organ of the United Nations. ...
Structure of a resolution
The typical United Nations resolution is constructed as a single, very long sentence. It is composed of three sections: the name of the UN body issuing the resolution (be it the Security Council, the General Assembly, a subsidiary organ of the GA, or any other resolution-issuing organization), which serves as the subject of the sentence; the preambulatory clauses (also called preambulatory phrases) indicating the reasons behind the resolution as a preamble does in other documents; and the operative clauses also called operative phrases) in which the body delineates the course of action it will take (if it is the Security Council or a UN organ making policy for within the UN) or recommends to be taken (in many Security Council resolutions and for all other bodies when acting outside the UN). The last operative clause is almost always "Decides to remain seized of the matter," (sometimes changed to "actively seized"). The reasoning behind this custom is somewhat murky, but it appears to be an assurance that the body in question will consider the topic addressed in the resolution in the future if it is necessary. In linguistics, a sentence is a unit of language, characterised in most languages by the presence of a finite verb. ...
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the organ of the United Nations charged with maintaining peace and security among nations. ...
The United Nations General Assembly (GA) is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations. ...
The subject of a sentence is one of the two main parts of a sentence, the other being the predicate. ...
Look up Preamble in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
The preambulatory and operative clauses almost always start with verbs, sometimes modified by adverbs then continue with whatever the body decides to put in; the first word is always either italicized or underlined . However, preambulatory clauses are unnumbered, end with commas, and sometimes do begin with adjectives; operative clauses are numbered, end with semicolons, (except for the final one, which ends with a period), and never begin with adjectives. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...
An adverb is a part of speech. ...
This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
An underline is one or more horizontal lines immediately below a portion of text. ...
A comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. ...
An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually describing it or making its meaning more specific. ...
A semicolon ( ; ) is a punctuation mark. ...
A full stop or period (sometimes stop, full point or dot), is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences in English and several other languages. ...
The name of the issuing body may be moved from above the preambulatory clauses to below them; the decision to do so is mostly stylistic, and the resolution still comprises a coherent sentence.
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The United Nations General Assembly (GA) is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations. ...
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the organ of the United Nations charged with maintaining peace and security among nations. ...
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