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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 US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of ...
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 council voted overwhelmingly in favor of the resolution — 14 of its 15 members voted “yes” including U.S. allies Britain and France — but it was doomed by the veto.
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.
As of 2012, 269 vetoes had been cast since the Security Council's inception. [d] In this period, China used the veto 9 times, France 18, the Soviet Union or Russia 128, the United Kingdom 32, and the United States 89. Roughly two-thirds of Soviet and Russian combined vetoes were in the first ten years of the Security Council's existence.
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 selection is subject to the veto of any of the five permanent members of the Security Council. [4] If a permanent member vetoes a candidate, it is not counted as a veto of a Security Council Resolution, as the votes are kept secret. To break the deadlocked selection of 1981, the Security Council began to take straw polls by secret ballot.