The organization's structure still reflects in some ways the circumstances of its founding; specifically, in addition to the rotating national members of the prominent United Nations Security Council, there are five permanent members with veto(否决) power—the United States of America, Russia, ...
That brought the total number of US vetoes on Israel-related resolutions to 49 — more than half of all its vetoes since the UN's founding. The US, along with China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom, holds the privile...
"Facts have proven that it was because of China and relevant countries' adherence to principles, justice, and resolute exercise of vetoes, that the United States has eventually realized that it cannot and is no longer able to continue to stop the Security Council for moving in the right direc...
DAMASCUS, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday strongly criticized the United States for using its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to block a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the ministry condemned the U.S. v...
Brazil Would Take a Seat at UN Even Without Veto PowerPaula Menna Barreto
-russia on monday vetoed a united nations security council draft resolution that called on sudan's warring parties to cease hostilities immediately and ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid. all other countries of the 15-member council, including china, voted in favor of the measure drafted by ...
members of the European Union, and has the largest land area of all members. France is also a founding member of the United Nations. It is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council wielding veto power, and it is also one of only eight acknowledged nuclear ...
Earlier this month, Palestine's renewed request for full member state status at the United Nations was evaluated by the UN Committee on the Admission of New Members. This revival of their membership bid in early April was supported by the 140 countries that recognize Palestine as an independent...
“We are edging towards the unimaginable, a power keg that risks engulfing the world.” “We are moving to a multipolar world, but we are not yet there. We are in a purgatory of polarity, and in this purgatory more and more countries are filling the spaces of geo...
The United Nations (UN) is an internationalnonprofit organizationformed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries. There are more than 190 member states in the UN—all of which are part of the UN's General Assembly. Headquartered in New York, the organizat...