List of emergency special sessions of the United Nations General Assembly

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An emergency special session is an unscheduled meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to make urgent recommendations on a particular issue. They are typically rare — a fact reflected in there being only 10 in the history of the United Nations.

Most emergency special sessions run for a single "meeting", which itself can run over a number of days — the Tenth, however, is the only emergency special session to be resumed more than once (the Seventh emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly was resumed once), meaning that that Session has spanned across a number of "meetings".

The UN General Assembly's Uniting for Peace resolution (resolution 377 A) demands a majority (procedural) vote of the Security Council, or a request by a majority of UN Member states being received by the Secretary-General, for the convocation of an emergency special session, within 24 hours.

First emergency special session

Topic: Suez Crisis
Date: 1 November - 10 November 1956
Resolution: A/3354
Convened by: Security Council

Second emergency special session

Topic: The Soviet invasion of Hungary (1956 Hungarian Revolution)
Date: 4 November - 10 November 1956
Resolution: A/3355
Convened by: Security Council

Third emergency special session

Topic: Lebanon Crisis
Date: 8 August - 21 August 1958
Resolution: A/3905
Convened by: Security Council

Fourth emergency special session

Topic: Secessionist violence in Congo
Date: 17 September - 19 September 1960
Resolution: A/4510
Convened by: Security Council

Fifth emergency special session

Topic: Six-Day War
Date: 17 June - 18 September 1967
Resolution: A/6798
Convened by: USSR

Sixth emergency special session

Topic: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Date: 10 January - 14 January 1980
Resolution and press release: A/ES-6/2, GA/6172
Convened by: Security Council

Seventh emergency special session

Topic: Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Dates: 22 July - 29 July 1980; 20 April - 28 April, 25 June - 26 June, 16 August - 19 August, and 24 September 1982
Resolution and press release: A/ES-7/14, GA/6245
Convened by: Senegal
See also: Seventh emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly

Eighth emergency special session

Topic: South Africa's long occupation of Namibia
Date: 3 September - 14 September 1981
Resolution and press release: A/ES-8/13, GA/6414
Convened by: Zimbabwe

Ninth emergency special session

Topic: Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights
Date: 29 January - 5 February 1982
Resolution and press release: A/ES-9/7, GA/6560
Convened by: Security Council

Tenth emergency special session

Topic: Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem
Date: 24 April - 25 April, 15 July, and 13 November 1997; 17 March 1998; 5, 8 and 9 February 1999; 18 and 20 October 2000; 20 December 2001; 7 May and 5 August 2002; 19 September, 20 October - 21 October, and 3 December 2003
Resolutions: A/ES-10/5, A/ES-10/L.1, A/ES-10/L.2, A/ES-10/L.3, A/ES-10/L.4, A/ES-10/L.5, A/ES-10/L.6, A/58/ES-10/L.13, A/58/ES-10/L.16, A/58/ES-10/L.17, A/RES/ES-10/2-11
Press release: GA/10152
Convened by: Qatar
See also: Tenth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly

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