United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 Security Council Resolution

United Nations Security Council Resolution

A United Nations Security Council resolution is a UN resolution adopted by the fifteen members of the Security Council; the UN body charged with "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security"....

 562, adopted on May 10, 1985, after recalling Resolution 530

United Nations Security Council Resolution 530

United Nations Security Council Resolution 530, adopted unanimously on May 19, 1983, having heard statements from Nicaragua and other Member States on the issue, the Council expressed its deep concern at the situation on the Honduras-Nicaragua border, and a possible military confrontation.The...

 (1983) and various General Assembly

United Nations General Assembly

For two articles dealing with membership in the General Assembly, see:* General Assembly members* General Assembly observersThe United Nations General Assembly is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation...

 resolutions which affirm the right of Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

 and other countries to live in peace without outside interference.

The Council also reaffirmed its support for the efforts of the Contadora Group

Contadora Group

The Contadora Group was an initiative launched in the early 1980s by the foreign ministers of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela to deal with the military conflicts in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, which were threatening to destabilize the entire Central American region.The original...

, and called upon all Member States to refrain from carrying out or supporting political, military or economic actions in the region that would impede the peace initiatives of the Contadora Group. It also called upong the governments of the United States

United States

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 and Nicaragua to resume dialogue they had been holding in Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 with a view to normalising their relations.

The resolution was adopted paragraph by paragraph, and thus no vote on the resolution as a whole took place.

See also

• Contras
  Contras
  The contras is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing Nicaragua's FSLN Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government following the July 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle's dictatorship...
  
  
• List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 501 to 600 (1982 – 1987)
• Nicaragua v. United States
• Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare
  Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare
  On October 15, 1984, Associated Press reported that the Central Intelligence Agency had written a manual for the Nicaraguan Contras , entitled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare...