1990s News Quiz | Post-Cold War Order, Peace Agreements and Human Rights

Resolution 678 authorized member states cooperating with Kuwait to use all necessary means if Iraq did not implement Resolution 660 and the relevant subsequent resolutions by the deadline. It neither merely added economic sanctions nor created a new standing UN army.

According to the UN member-state record, the President of the Russian Federation informed the Secretary-General by letter on December 24, 1991 that the Russian Federation would continue the Soviet Union's membership in the Security Council and other UN bodies. This question asks what the letter recorded, not for a judgment about its legal status.

Opening for signature is the stage at which states may signal their intention to join a treaty; it is not the same as the treaty's entry into force. The Chemical Weapons Convention opened for signature on January 13, 1993 and entered into force on April 29, 1997 after its specified conditions, including the required ratifications, were met.

The declaration provided for an elected Palestinian interim self-government authority and a transitional period of no more than five years leading toward a permanent settlement. It did not resolve every permanent-status issue at the time it was signed.

Resolution 955 established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Its mandate covered genocide and other serious violations committed in Rwanda during 1994, as well as specified offences committed by Rwandan citizens in neighbouring states. It was separate from both the permanent ICC and the International Court of Justice, which hears disputes between states.

Following negotiations in Dayton, Ohio, the peace documents were initialled there on November 21, 1995 and formally signed in Paris on December 14. The common name therefore comes from the site of negotiation and initialling, not the site of formal signature.

The UN General Assembly adopted the CTBT on September 10, 1996, and the treaty opened for signature on September 24. Adoption and opening for signature are separate stages. The CTBT addresses nuclear test explosions in every environment, including underground.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was established on July 1, 1997, when the Basic Law took effect as its constitutional document. The Basic Law sets out the systems practised in Hong Kong under 'one country, two systems'; it does not make Hong Kong an independent state.

The principle of consent makes Northern Ireland's constitutional status dependent on the wishes of a majority of its people. Rather than allowing either government to decide the status alone, the Agreement combined that principle with institutions based on power-sharing and mutual respect.

With 78.5 percent voting against the special-autonomy proposal, the East Timorese people expressed their wish to begin a transition toward independence. Independence did not take effect on polling day; a transition that included a period of UN administration followed.