The United Nations General Assembly is the main deliberative body of the United Nations, in which every member state has one vote. It held its first session in London in January 1946, in the Methodist Central Hall, with delegates from fifty-one founding members, and then moved to New York. The membership has since grown to 193 states. The Assembly debates global issues, approves the UN budget and elects the non-permanent members of the Security Council. Its resolutions are recommendations and generally not legally binding. It adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the partition plan for Palestine in 1947, and it meets every September for a general debate attended by world leaders.
Before and after
- 1945Founding of United Nations Secretariat
- 1945Discovery of Nag Hammadi library
- 1945Allied-occupied Germany
- 1945Invention of breadth-first search
- 1945Founding of United Nations General Assembly
- 1945Founding of Baskin-Robbins
- 1945Invention of computer
- 1945Founding of International Court of Justice
- 1945Founding of Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
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- 9 September 1999Founding of African Union
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The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.