Uniting for Peace Resolution (UNGA /RES/377 (A), Reforms of UNSC

During the Korean War, a Soviet veto meant the Security Council could not agree on anything, so the General Assembly did something it had never quite done before: it voted itself a way around the deadlock. On 3 November 1950 the Assembly adopted Resolution 377A(V), Uniting for Peace, and every time the Council has been paralysed since, someone has asked whether this seventy-year-old workaround can be used again.

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The Uniting for Peace Resolution, UNGA Resolution 377A(V) of 3 November 1950, lets the General Assembly step in with recommendations for collective action, including the use of force, whenever the Security Council is deadlocked by a lack of unanimity among its permanent members.

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