Third session of the United Nations General Assembly

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The Third session of the United Nations General Assembly was a 1948–1949 meeting of UN member states in Paris and New York that, among other actions, adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.


Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United Nations General Assembly session
session of the United Nations General Assembly
appliesToJurisdiction United Nations member states
chronology early Cold War period
country France
United States of America
describedBySource United Nations General Assembly official records
United Nations Yearbook 1948–1949
endTime 1949
followedBy Fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly
follows Second session of the United Nations General Assembly
hasEffect codification of the crime of genocide in international law
development of international human rights law
strengthening of the United Nations’ normative framework
hasLanguage Arabic
Chinese
English
French
Russian
Spanish
hasPart First Committee (Disarmament and International Security)
Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization)
Sixth Committee
surface form: Sixth Committee (Legal)

Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural)
legislativeBody United Nations General Assembly
location New York City
Paris
mainSubject Korean question
Palestine question
United Nations budget
collective security
decolonization
disarmament
human rights
international law
post–World War II international order
refugees
organizedBy United Nations
partOf United Nations General Assembly
pointInTime post–World War II era
significantEvent adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
consideration of the admission of new member states
debates on the Berlin Blockade and early Cold War tensions
debates on the regulation of armaments
decisions concerning the future of the former Italian colonies
decisions on the international status of Jerusalem
establishment of the United Nations Relief for Palestine Refugees (predecessor arrangements to UNRWA)
startTime 1948

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Resolution 260 A (III) session Third session of the United Nations General Assembly