EU & UN
This page focuses on the relations between the European Union and the United Nations.
EU-Links
Here you can find information on the relation between different EU actors and the UN. The site also contains EU statements at the UN, related publications, the UN-EU Partnership reports, news, policies, calendar, etc.
You can find very interesting information on the right side of the page: like links to delegation offices at the UN and key documents.
Provides an overview of information related to the EU's relation with the UN and links to contact information of the different delegations (New York, Geneva, Paris, Nairobi, Rome and Vienna).
Links
This is the portal of the United Nations.
Here you can find information on United Nations treaties, but also information on multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General.
This database gives you access to all UN statistics. Amongst the subjects are: indicators, refugees, human development, etc.
Homepage to the ICJ in The Hague, the principal judicial organ of the UN.
Search for UNGA resolutions (1977-present), UNGA landmark documents, UNSC resolutions (1946-present), UNSC Provisional Rules of Procedure, Selected Secretary-General Documents and Repertoire of the practice of the UNSC (1946-1988).
Keep up with UN activities, but also search the archives. The articles often provide links to documents.
Provides documents containing references to recent literature (2007-2008) arranged by subject (arms control, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, China and Taiwan, Development issues, energy supply, enlargement, environmental issues, European integration, European law, European Security, external relations of the EU, human rights, international trade, islam, NATO, peacekeeping, Russia, Sub-Sahara Africa, terrorism, UN, US, etc.)
Here you can find the votings of the member states and their declarations on all the resolutions.
1. Click in the left side bar on 'resolutions'. (if you want to recall past sessions, just click in the top bar on 'past sessions' -> the requested session -> 'resolutions' in the left side bar)
2. In the left column you may find the resolution code and the link to the resolution in PDF, in the last column you may find the topic of the resolution. In the fourth column you will find to codes. when there was a voting on that specific resolution you can find the votes and the declarations of the different parties by clicking on the second link.
3. There you will find a short introduction to the resolution, the declarations of the parties and at the buttom the voting records.
Here you can find a resolution on any topic.Give in your search phrase or the exact resolution. Be sure to look in the right category (e.g. not for 'water' in the category 'UN resolution symbol'). When you made your search you get a list with the results. Click on the title to get more information and the voting results. The voting results are in a list which offers no clear oversight. You can copy/paste the list to a word processor and sort it in alphabetical order. (Be sure to take out the countries which did not vote after you sorted them (those with no letter in front of them))
Click on a language to see the resolution.
Literature
Ortega, M. (Ed.) (2005) 'The European Union and the United Nations. Partners in effective multilateralism', EU Institute for Security Studies - Chaillot paper, 78.
Wouters, J., Hoffmeister, F. and Ruys, T. (Eds.) (2006). The United Nations and the European Union: An Ever Stronger Partnership. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press.
Laatikainen, K. V. and Smith, K. E. (2006) Intersecting Multilateralisms: The European Union and the United Nations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Rasch, M.B. (2009) The European Union at the United Nations: The Functioning and Coherence of EU External Representation in a State-centric Environment, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Marchesi, Daniele (2010) The EU Common Foreign and Security Policy in the UN Security Council: Between representation and coordination. European Foreign Affairs Review 15 (1):97-114.
Nations, United (2010) Improving lives: Results of the partnership between the United Nations and the European Union in 2009. Brussels: United Nations Regional Information Centre in Brussels.
Koops, Joachim A. (2011) The European Union as an integrative power? Assessing the EU’s ‘Effective Multilateralism’ towards NATO and the United Nations. Brussels: VUB Press.
Giumelli, Franceso (2011) Coercing, Constraining and Signalling: Explaining UN and EU Sanctions after the Cold War. Colchester: ECPR Press
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