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The Korean Question

A/RES/1455(XIV)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1960.

What else is in this group?

18 documents · 1953–1969
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1969).
  • 1969A/RES/2466(XXIII)The Korean questionCompare with earlier document
  • 1968A/RES/2269(XXII)The Korean QuestionCompare with earlier document
  • 1967A/RES/2224(XXI)The Korean questionCompare with earlier document
  • 1966A/RES/2132(XX)The Korean questionCompare with earlier document
  • 1964A/RES/1964(XVIII)The Korean questionCompare with earlier document

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What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics
DemocracyElectionsInternal SecurityKorean QuestionRepresentative GovernmentRepublic of Korea

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs
1
Reaffirms that the objectives of the United Nations in Korea are to bring about, by peaceful means, the establishment of a unified, independent and democractic Korea under a representative form of government, and the full restoration of international peace and security in the area ;
2
Calls upon the communist authorities concerned to accept these established United Nations objectives in order to achieve a settlement in Korea based on the fundamental principles for unification set forth by the nations participating on behalf of the United Nations in the Korean Political Conference held at Geneva in 1954, and reaffirmed by the General Assembly, and to agree at an early date on the holding of genuinely free elections in accordance with the principles endorsed by the Assembly;
3
Requests the United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea to continue its work in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly;
4
Requests the Secretary-General to place the Korean question on the provisional agenda of the fifteenth session of the General Assembly.
9 December 1959.

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