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India supported the charter provisions for a Security Council veto for the great powers, opposed the U.S. initiative to circumvent the veto through the Uniting for Peace Resolution, dismissed Hammarskjöld's notion of a "UN presence" as interventionist and opposed all efforts to conduct UN directed plebiscites as tests of opinion.
The United Nations Security Council veto power is the power of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) to veto any decision other than a "procedural" decision.
In parliamentary systems, the veto power of the head of state is typically weak or nonexistent. [4] In particular, in Westminster systems and most constitutional monarchies, the power to veto legislation by withholding royal assent is a rarely used reserve power of the monarch. In practice, the Crown follows the convention of exercising its ...
India will set up one or more grievance committees to oversee content moderation decisions of social media firms, it said Friday, moving ahead with a proposal that has rattled Meta, Google and ...
The India-Pakistan question (Kashmir conflict and India–Pakistan relations) Soviet Union: 4 November 1956: S/3730/Rev.1: S/PV.754: Letter dated 27 October 1956 from France, the UK and the US to the President of the Security Council concerning the situation in Hungary (Soviet involvement in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956) Soviet Union: 30 ...
The G4 nations: Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan. There have been proposals suggesting the introduction of new permanent members. The candidates usually mentioned are Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan. They compose the group of four countries known as the G4 nations, which mutually support one another's bids for permanent seats. [19]
(Reuters) -Japan's Nippon Steel has proposed giving the U.S. government veto power over any potential cuts to U.S. Steel's production capacity, as part of its efforts to secure President Joe Biden ...
Even the mere threat of a veto may lead to changes in the text of a resolution, or it being withheld altogether (the so-called "pocket veto"). As a result, the power of veto often prevents the council from acting to address pressing international issues and affords the "P5" great influence within the UN institution as a whole.