Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cablegram dated 19 June 1954 from Guatemala to the President of the Security Council (CIA backed 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état) Soviet Union: 18 June 1954: S/3229: S/PV.674: Letter dated 29 May 1954 from Thailand to the President of the Security Council (Viet Minh incursion into Thailand) Soviet Union: 29 March 1954: S/3188/Corr.1: S/PV.664
The use of the veto has gone through several distinct phases, reflecting the shifting political balance on the Security Council. From 1946 to 1969, a majority of the Security Council was aligned with the United States, which cast no vetoes because it won every vote.
The UN Charter specifies, in Article 27, that decisions of the Security Council shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members, out of the 15 members of the Security Council. With the exception of purely procedural decisions, all other resolutions adopted by the Security Council can be vetoed by any of the five permanent members. [1]
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.S.-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on countries to prevent an arms race in outer space, a move that prompted ...
The 15-member council voted on a resolution put forward by 10 non-permanent members that called for an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in the 13-month conflict and separately ...
The United States has vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council which called for a humanitarian pause in besieged Gaza – sparking more criticism of political paralysis in the powerful ...
25 January 1946 Adopted without vote Establishing the Military Staff Committee: 2: 30 January 1946 11–0–0 The Iran crisis of 1946: 3: 4 April 1946 9–0–0 (present not voting: Australia; absent: USSR) Soviet troops in Iran 4: 29 April 1946 10–0–1 (abstention: USSR) Condemning Francoist Spain: 5: 8 May 1946 10–0–0 (absent: USSR)
The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution on Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for the state of Palestine. The vote in the 15-member Security ...