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On 23 June 2017, the UNGA voted in favour of referring the territorial dispute between
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On 22 May 2019, the UNGA voted 116 to 6 (Australia, Hungary, Israel, Maldives, United
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in 1965, when both were colonial territories, to be unlawful and found that the United
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