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The tenth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly centers on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the ongoing dispute and conflict over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The session was first convened in 1997 under the president of the General Assembly, Razali Ismail of Malaysia. This occurred when the Security Council failed to make a decision on the issue at two different meetings. The session remains adjourned. An emergency special session (ESS)〔(UNGA Emergency Special Sessions ). UN.org.〕 is an unscheduled meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to make urgent, but non-binding decisions or recommendations regarding a particular issue. They are rare—a fact reflected in there having been only ten convened in the history of the United Nations. Most emergency special sessions span a single sitting—the tenth is the only ESS to have been resumed more than once (the seventh emergency special session was resumed exactly once). Indeed, more than ten separate 'meetings' have been held by the Assembly, whilst sitting in tenth ESS, since the Year 2000.〔(See A/ES-10/PV.1 onwards ). UN.org〕 The fact that the tenth has spanned so many sittings can be seen as an indicator of the importance of the issue in international politics. It has, so far, seen over 30 meetings held (see UN documents A/ES-10/PV.1 to A/ES-10/PV.31),〔 every year from 1997 through 2007. The mechanism of the emergency special session〔 was created in 1950 by the General Assembly's adoption of its 'Uniting for Peace' resolution, which made the necessary changes to the Assembly's 'Rules of Procedure'〔(UNGA Rules of Procedure ). UN.org.〕 at that time. The resolution likewise declared that:
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