The United Nations is a gathering of sovereign States and what it can do depends on the common ground that they create between them. The adver- sarial decades of the cold war made the original promise of the Organization impossible to fulfil. The January 1992 Summit therefore represented an unprecedented recommitment, at the highest politi- cal level, to the Purposes and Principles of the Ch…
This book is drawn directly from these daily records and describes events from late 1977 to late 1981, the seminal years of negotlations to achieve Palestinian rights and peace in the Middle East.
This volume includes more than 200 key United Nations documents relating to all aspects of the situation. An extensive introduction by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and a detailed chronology complement the texts.