List of emergency special sessions of the United Nations General Assembly

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.^[1] 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 (A/RES/377 A)^[2] 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.

Emergency special session	Topic	Convened by	Date	Resolution
First	Suez Crisis	United Nations Security Council	1–10 November 1956	A/3354
Second	Soviet invasion of Hungary		4–10 November 1956	A/3355
Third	Lebanon crisis		8–21 August 1958	A/3905
Fourth	Congo Crisis		17–19 September 1960	A/4510
Fifth	Six-Day War	Soviet Union	17 June-18 September 1967	A/6798
Sixth	Soviet invasion of Afghanistan	United Nations Security Council	10–14 January 1980	ES-6/1, 2
Seventh	Israeli-Palestinian conflict	Senegal	22–29 July 1980 20–28 April 1982 25–26 June 1982 16–19 August 1982 24 September 1982	ES-7/1, 2, 3 ES-7/4 ES-7/5 ES-7/6 ES-7/9
Eighth	South African occupation of Namibia (South West Africa)	Zimbabwe	3–14 September 1981	ES-8/1, 2
Ninth	Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights (Golan Heights Law)	United Nations Security Council	29 January-5 February 1982	ES-9/1
Tenth	Israeli-Palestinian conflict (East Jerusalem and Israeli-occupied territories)	Qatar	24–25 April 1997 15 July 1997 13 November 1997 17 March 1998 5, 8 and 9 February 1999 18 and 20 October 2000 20 December 2001 7 May 2002 5 August 2002 19 September 2003 20–21 October 2003 3 December 2003 20 July 2004 24 January 2007 4 April 2007 23 January 2009	ES-10/1, 2 ES-10/3 ES-10/4 ES-10/5 ES-10/6 ES-10/7 ES-10/8, 9 ES-10/10 ES-10/11 ES-10/12 ES-10/13 ES-10/14 ES-10/15 ES-10/16 ES-10/17 ES-10/18

References

1. Emergency Special Sessions UN General Assembly (retrieved 2011-06-21)
2. United Nations General Assembly Session -1 Resolution 377. A/RES/377(V) Retrieved 2008-02-10.