Exceptions To Orderly Succession
There are several recent examples where succession of states, as described above, has not been entirely adhered to. This is only a list of the exceptions that have occurred since the creation of the United Nations. In previous historical periods, the exceptions would be too many to list.
- When the Democratic Kampuchea regime of Pol Pot was militarily displaced by the Vietnamese-backed People's Republic of Cambodia, the United Nations seat continued to be held by Democratic Kampuchea for many years.
- The Taliban state (the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) in Afghanistan became the de facto government of nearly all the country in the mid-1990s, but the Afghan Northern Alliance was still recognised by many nations and retained the UN seat.
- After four of the six constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia seceded in 1991 and 1992, the rump state, renamed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, was recognized as the legal successor by the United Nations, and representatives from Belgrade continued to hold the original Yugoslavian UN seat; however, the United States refused to recognize it. In 1992, under American influence, the Security Council on September 19 (Resolution 777) and the General Assembly on September 22, retired their recognition on the theory that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had dissolved. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later renamed Serbia and Montenegro) was admitted to membership in the United Nations in 2000; in 2006, Montenegro declared independence and Serbia inherited the seat.
- The People's Republic of China (PRC) was proclaimed in 1949 claiming to be the successor state of the Republic of China (ROC), despite the ROC still existing (as state based primarily on the island of Taiwan and other islands). The ROC maintained a seat for China on the UN Security Council until the PRC was admitted to the United Nations and Security Council in 1971 in place of the ROC through the adoption of General Assembly Resolution 2758. To date, the PRC exercises sovereignty over mainland China, while the ROC exercises sovereignty over Taiwan and some minor islands, with each officially claiming to be the sole legitimate government for both mainland China and Taiwan.
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