What is the Uniting for peace resolution?
Last Updated: Feb 20, 2025     Views: 78490

General Assembly resolution 377(V) is known as the Uniting for peace resolution. Adopted in 1950, the resolution resolves that if the Security Council fails to exercise its responsibility to maintain international peace and security, the General Assembly may call an emergency special session. To date, 11 emergency special sessions have been convened.

The following information comes from the UN General Assembly Resolutions Tables research guide

Emergency Special Sessions of the General Assembly

According to the UN General Assembly website on Emergency Special Sessions,

Under the resolution 377A(V)"Uniting for peace", adopted by the General Assembly on 3 November 1950, an emergency special session can be convened within 24 hours:

"Resolves that if the Security Council, because of lack of unanimity of the permanent members, fails to exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security in any case where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, the General Assembly shall consider the matter immediately with a view to making appropriate recommendations to Members for collective measures, including in the case of a breach of the peace or act of aggression the use of armed force when necessary, to maintain or restore international peace and security. If not in session at the time, the General Assembly may meet in emergency special session within twenty-four hours of the request therefor. Such emergency special session shall be called if requested by the Security Council on the vote of any seven members, or by a majority of the Members of the United Nations."

 

Additional information about the resolution, including its procedural history is available through the Audiovisual Library of International Law.



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