1946 in Afghanistan
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, other events of 1946, and 1947 in Afghanistan
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. This is approved on August 29, and Afghanistan is formally admitted as a member by the Assembly on November 19.
and Sultan Ahmad Khan, Afghan ambassador, reestablishing the frontier which had existed between Afghanistan and imperial Russia; the new treaty concerns the frontier line along the Penj and Oxus rivers and provides for the incorporation in the U.S.S.R. of the Kashka district, ceded to Afghanistan in 1921.
1945 in Afghanistan
See also: 1944 in Afghanistan, other events of 1945, and 1946 in Afghanistan.----There is little change in internal affairs as Zahir Shah continues a peaceful rule and the end of World War II sees an unbroken record of neutrality for the country. During the year, Eli E. Palmer, formerly with the...
, other events of 1946, and 1947 in Afghanistan
1947 in Afghanistan
See also: 1946 in Afghanistan, other events of 1947, and 1948 in Afghanistan.----Because of close ties of kinship and common cultural tradition, Afghanistan is deeply concerned over the question of the right to self-determination of the Afghans of the North-West Frontier Province of India, arising...
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May 1946
Sardar Shah Mahmud succeeds Sardar Mohammad Hashim as prime minister. This change of government, after a period of 17 years without change, leads to the proclamation of a general amnesty for political prisoners and the setting up of a high court of justice for the trial of future political offenders.June 5, 1946
Afghanistan applies for membership in the United NationsUnited Nations
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. This is approved on August 29, and Afghanistan is formally admitted as a member by the Assembly on November 19.
June 13, 1946
An agreement is signed in Moscow by Vyacheslav MolotovVyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev...
and Sultan Ahmad Khan, Afghan ambassador, reestablishing the frontier which had existed between Afghanistan and imperial Russia; the new treaty concerns the frontier line along the Penj and Oxus rivers and provides for the incorporation in the U.S.S.R. of the Kashka district, ceded to Afghanistan in 1921.