On this day in ...... 1974 (35 years ago today), the U.N. General Assembly adopted Resolution 3237, which granted permanent observer status to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Fourteen years later that decision would be reviewed in an International Court of Justice advisory opinion. (credit for U.N. photo depicting (left to right) Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, General Assembly President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, and Under-Secretary-General for Political and General Assembly Affairs Bradford Morse presiding as General Assembly votes on PLO status)
(Prior November 22 posts are here and here.)
