No. of vetoes

We are opposed to the idea of vetoes in the Council, and we are equally opposed to vetoes on reform.

Many Europeans are sick of British vetoes. So am I.

Okay, so there is a feedback signal that vetoes the signal of the mirror neuron preventing you from consciously experiencing that touch.

The third decision concerns the British vetoes of the candidacies of Jean Luc Dehaene and Jean Claude Juncker for President of the European Commission.

There had been 30 actual or threatened vetoes in the Security Council of draft resolutions aimed at finding a balanced approach to the situation.

However, to minimize the misuse of the veto, if permanent membership is expanded at least two vetoes should be required to block a resolution.

However, to minimize the misuse of the veto, if permanent membership is expanded, there should be at least two vetoes to block a draft resolution

Since the inception of the United Nations in 1945, a total of 280 vetoes were exercised by the permanent members of the Security Council, as follows

Before even a word has been spoken, Europeans are being told that the negotiations in Brussels will be bad tempered, with vetoes by individual member states looming large.

That stance has translated, most obviously, into repeated vetoes of UN Security Council resolutions aimed at ending a conflict that has already produced tens of thousands of victims.

The customary application of double standards and the vetoes and threats of veto to which I referred have simply led to stagnation in the Council as regards this matter.

Now, at last, the United Nations has risen from its unhappy past with new hopes the world body is no longer held hostage to the paralysing cold war vetoes.

Africa and Latin America do not even wield a single veto, whereas the Group of Western European and Other States, and Eastern Europe, now wield four of the five vetoes in the Council.

On that basis the Government of De Klerk apos s National Party with two votes in their own right on the Transitional Executive Council are likely to have little difficulty in delivering minority vetoes. quot

Is it reasonable that procedural vetoes can be systematically and routinely put into play to prevent substantive discussions from even beginning? For three out of four weeks, the NPT Review Conference was effectively blocked that way.

The special majority required for the executive cabinet to take a decision effectively places the executive under minority vetoes and constitutionalizes a lame duck government in which the majority party have responsibility but no real power.

Before even a word has been spoken, Europeans are being told that the negotiations in Brussels will be bad tempered, with vetoes by individual member states looming large. Unfortunately, such talk could well become a self fulfilling prophecy.

While European public and private support to Israel, especially in its founding years, is believed to be very extensive, the US has created a firewall of vetoes and political protection for Israel, in addition to providing massive financial support.

The historic tally of the Security Council's work includes 29 vetoes, with many threats of more, in instances when the Council has attempted to adopt a draft resolution that would contribute to ending the massacre of an entire people.

A number of different formulas have been offered, ranging from determining issues on which the veto could not be used to requiring that the veto be exercised only if two States that were entitled to do so cast vetoes.

It is indeed hard to believe that Russia and China, in particular, would be accommodating. Russia, for example, has exercised vetoes more than 100 times since 1946, most recently and unhappily four times since 2011 to block resolutions intended to halt the carnage in Syria.

However, since it is unlikely that the power of veto will soon be abolished, the Republic of Croatia is of the view that the proposal of requiring at least two vetoes to be cast in order to nullify a Security Council resolution deserves serious consideration.

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