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1990
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1991
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1.15.1991
The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. |
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5.31.1991
Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission. |
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1992
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7.31.1992
Georgia joins the United Nations.
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12.3.1992
UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia. |
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1993
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4.23.1993
Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
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7.28.1993
Andorra joins the United Nations.
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1994
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10.1.1994
Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
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12.15.1994
Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.
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1995
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2.17.1995
The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN. |
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1996
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9.24.1996
U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations. |
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1997
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1.1.1997
Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is appointed Secretary General of the United Nations.
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1998
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9.2.1998
The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
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1999
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6.12.1999
Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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11.25.1999
The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic. |
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2000
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1.14.2000
A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. |
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9.5.2000
Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
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11.1.2000
Serbia joins the United Nations.
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2002
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3.3.2002
Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations. |
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9.27.2002
Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
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2003
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8.19.2003
A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. |
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9.12.2003
The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. |
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2007
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12.11.2007
Two car bombs explode at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings. |
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2008
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7.10.2008
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
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