United Nations Security Council resolution 462, adopted on 9 January 1980, after considering an item on the agenda of the council and given the lack of unanimity amongst its permanent members, the council decided to call an emergency meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss the

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. Two days prior to the adoption of Resolution 462, a previous draft resolution had been vetoed by the Soviet Union. During the discussions of the draft resolution, some members of the council highlighted the serious nature of the situation and that it justified a general assembly debate. The resolution was adopted by 12 votes to two against ( East Germany, Soviet Union) with one

abstention Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote, but does not cast a ballot. Abstention must be contrasted with ...

from Zambia. Following the resolution, the

Sixth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly The sixth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly was held between 10 and 14 January 1980 to consider the situation in Afghanistan. As the Soviet–Afghan War began members of the United Nations General Assembly requested th ...

took place.

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Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
{{UNSCR 1980 0462 Political history of Afghanistan Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations 1980 in the Soviet Union 0462 0462 January 1980 events

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