‘84 Security Council Debate Dominated by Mideast Issues
The U.N. Security Council met 57 times in 1984, its lowest total since 1978, and nearly half the discussions dealt with problems in the Middle East, including disputes between Arabs and Israel, Iran and Iraq and between Libya and several other nations.
The second-most-discussed issue in 1984 was Cyprus, which involved 11 meetings. South Africa was the subject 10 times, and Nicaraguan complaints against the United States took up seven.
The council first met in 1946 as the U.N.’s chief peacekeeping body. The highest annual total of meetings was 168 in 1948, the year of Israel’s creation and the first Arab-Israeli war. The lowest number of meetings was five in 1959.
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