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United Nations Preventive Deployment Force

UNPREDEP, the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1995-1999), the first and only UN peacekeeping mission with a preventive mandate, deployed to stop Yugoslav wars from spilling over; ended by a Chinese veto.

United Nations Safe Areas

UN Safe Areas: six Bosnian towns (Srebrenica, Sarajevo, Tuzla, Zepa, Gorazde, Bihac) designated safe areas by Security Council Resolutions 819 and 824 in 1993, protected by UNPROFOR under Resolution 836, and never securely enforced; Srebrenica fell in July 1995.

United Nations sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The United Nations sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) were mandatory Security Council sanctions imposed in May 1992 over the Bosnian war and terminated in October 1996.

United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee

UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC, also Comité contra el Terrorismo): a 15-member Security Council subsidiary body created by resolution 1373 (2001) on 28 September 2001 after 9/11, supported by CTED, monitoring binding counter-terrorism obligations of all UN Member States.

United Nations Security Council country sanctions regimes

United Nations Security Council country sanctions regimes are restrictive measures adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, binding on all 193 member states and targeting specific countries.

United Nations Security Council elections, 1950s

The United Nations Security Council elections of the 1950s were annual General Assembly votes choosing three non-permanent members each year, with deadlocks in 1955 and 1959 resolved by split terms.

United Nations Security Council elections, 1960s

UN Security Council elections of the 1960s: annual General Assembly ballots under the 1946 six-seat regional allocation, split terms, the 1960 Liberia-Portugal contest, and the 1963 Charter amendment enlarging elected membership from six to ten.

United Nations Security Council elections, 1990s

The United Nations Security Council elections of the 1990s were ten annual General Assembly ballots, held each October and November from 1990 to 1999, filling the Council's rotating non-permanent seats.

United Nations Security Council elections, 2010–2019

The United Nations Security Council elections, 2010–2019, were the annual General Assembly votes filling the Council's elected seats, including a 2016 Italy–Netherlands split term and a rare 2017 by-election.

United Nations Security Council resolution

United Nations Security Council resolution: formal adopted decision of the 15-member UNSC, numbered S/RES/n (year) since the 1965 retroactive numbering, with preamble and operative parts, adopted by nine votes including concurring P5 votes.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1031

UNSCR 1031 (S/RES/1031), adopted unanimously 15 December 1995 under Chapter VII, authorized NATO-led IFOR to implement Dayton's military annexes in Bosnia, ended UNPROFOR's mandate, and led to SFOR under Resolution 1088.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1037

UNSC Resolution 1037 (15 January 1996), adopted under Chapter VII, established UNTAES, the UN Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, implementing the 1995 Erdut Agreement with up to 5,000 troops until 15 January 1998.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1101

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1101, adopted in 1997, authorized a multinational protection force led by Italy, known as Operation Alba, to deliver humanitarian aid in Albania.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1189

UN Security Council Resolution 1189 (S/RES/1189), adopted unanimously 13 August 1998, condemns the 7 August 1998 al-Qaeda truck bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and urges counter-terrorism cooperation.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1199

UN Security Council Resolution 1199 (S/RES/1199), adopted 23 September 1998 under Chapter VII on Kosovo, FRY, demanded a ceasefire, FRY withdrawal of repression units, humanitarian access, and refugee return, with China abstaining.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, adopted on 10 June 1999 under Chapter VII, ordered Yugoslav forces to withdraw and placed Kosovo under UN interim administration.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267, adopted unanimously on 15 October 1999, imposed air and financial embargoes on the Taliban for refusing to hand over Usama bin Laden.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1269

UNSCR 1269 (S/RES/1269(1999)), adopted unanimously 19 October 1999, is the first general Security Council resolution on terrorism, condemning all terrorist acts and urging cooperation, conventions implementation, and safe-haven denial, without Chapter VII binding force.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1284

UN Security Council Resolution 1284 (S/RES/1284), adopted 17 December 1999 by a vote of 11-0-4, created UNMOVIC to replace UNSCOM in disarming Iraq of WMD and tied sanctions suspension to cooperation; Iraq rejected it for nearly three years.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 is a 2000 resolution adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council. It was the first to address Women, Peace and Security.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1333

UNSC Resolution 1333, adopted 19 December 2000, imposed an arms embargo on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, froze Usama bin Laden's funds, banned military advice to the Taliban, restricted Taliban travel and offices, and extended the 1267 sanctions regime until Resolution 1390 modified it.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373

UN Security Council Resolution 1373 is a binding 2001 decision requiring all UN member states to criminalize terrorist financing, freeze terrorist assets, and deny safe haven.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1386

UNSCR 1386 (S/RES/1386(2001)), adopted unanimously 20 December 2001, authorized the six-month International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) under Chapter VII to assist the Afghan Interim Authority in and around Kabul.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1390

UNSC Resolution 1390 (2002), adopted unanimously 16 January 2002, continued the Taliban/Al-Qaida sanctions regime after the Taliban's fall, imposing an assets freeze, travel ban, and open-ended arms embargo on bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and associates worldwide, and creating the Consolidated List.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1397

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1397, adopted 12 March 2002, affirmed the vision of Israel and Palestine as two states living side by side in peace.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441

UNSCR 1441, adopted unanimously 8 November 2002, declared Iraq in material breach, gave a final chance to comply, mandated UNMOVIC and IAEA inspections, and preceded the 2003 Iraq invasion.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483

UNSCR 1483 (22 May 2003), adopted 14-0 with Syria absent under Chapter VII, lifted the 1990 Iraq sanctions, ended the Oil-for-Food Programme, recognized the US and UK as occupying powers, and created the Development Fund for Iraq.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1493

UN Security Council Resolution 1493 (2003), adopted unanimously 28 July 2003, extended MONUC's DRC mandate to 30 July 2004, raised its strength to 10,800, and imposed a 12-month arms embargo on armed groups in Ituri and the Kivus.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1535

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1535, adopted unanimously on 26 March 2004, restructured the Counter-Terrorism Committee and established the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate to monitor implementation of resolution 1373.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540

UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), adopted unanimously under Chapter VII, binds all states to prevent non-state actors from acquiring nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons; overseen by the 1540 Committee, mandate extended to 2032 by resolution 2663.