ited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The application has yet to be voted on by the Security Council.
A European Union institution, the European Commission, was granted observer status at the UNGA through Resolution 3208 in 1974. The Lisbon Treaty in 2009 resulted in the delegates being accredited directly to the EU. It was accorded full rights in the General Assembly, bar the right to vote and put forward candidates, via UNGA Resolution A/RES/65/276 on 10 May 2011. It is the only non-state party to over 50 multilateral conventions, and has participated as a full member in every way except for having a vote in a number of UN conferences.
The sovereignty status of Western Sahara is in dispute between Morocco and the Polisario Front. Most of the territory is controlled by Morocco, the remainder (the Free Zone) by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, proclaimed by the Polisario Front. Western Sahara is listed by the UN as a "non-self-governing territory".
The Cook Islands and Niue, which are both associated states of New Zealand, are not members of the UN, but are members of specialized agencies of the UN such as WHO and UNESCO, and signatories of international treaties such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and are treated as non-member states.
- Enlargement of the United Nations
- League of Nations members
- List of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations
- United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories
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