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Article: Seven states join UN; membership now 166.
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- December 1, 1991
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All seven members--the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania--were admitted by acclamation by the General Assembly. On the same day, their national flags were raised at a special ceremony in front of UN Headquarters.
"Today is a big day for the United Nations", said Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar at the ceremony. "With this event, the United Nations takes a further important step towards the goal of universality of membership--a goal that it has embraced since its inception, over four and a half decades ago.
"As it moves towards a ...