Use of the Veto on United Nations Resolutions by the USA
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In the United Nations, five countries (called the Permanent Members of the Security Council) can veto a United Nations resolution. These five are the USA, the UK, France, Russia (USSR before 1990), and China (Taiwan before 1971). This is a list of resolutions vetoed by the USA.
Year -
Resolution Vetoed by the USA
1972 Condemns Israel for
killing hundreds of people in Syria and Lebanon in air
raids.
1973 Afirms the rights of the Palestinians and
calls on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.
1976 Condemns Israel for attacking Lebanese civilians.
1976 Condemns Israel for building settlements in the
occupied territories.
1976 Calls for self determination
for the Palestinians.
1976 Afirms the rights of the
Palestinians.
1978 Urges the permanent members (USA,
USSR, UK, France, China) to insure United Nations decisions
on the maintenance of international peace and security.
1978 Criticises the living conditions of the
Palestinians.
1978 Condemns the Israeli human rights
record in occupied territories.
1978 Calls for developed
countries to increase the quantity and quality of
development assistance to underdeveloped countries.
1979
Calls for an end to all military and nuclear collaboration
with the apartheid South Africa.
1979 Strengthens the
arms embargo against South Africa.
1979 Offers
assistance to all the oppressed people of South Africa and
their liberation movement.
1979 Concerns negotiations on
disarmament and cessation of the nuclear arms race.
1979
Calls for the return of all inhabitants expelled by Israel.
1979 Demands that Israel desist from human rights
violations.
1979 Requests a report on the living
conditions of Palestinians in occupied Arab countries.
1979 Offers assistance to the Palestinian people.
1979 Discusses sovereignty over national resources in
occupied Arab territories.
1979 Calls for protection of
developing counties' exports.
1979 Calls for alternative
approaches within the United Nations system for improving
the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
1979 Opposes support for intervention in the internal or
external affairs of states.
1979 For a United Nations
Conference on Women.
1979 To include Palestinian women
in the United Nations Conference on Women.
1979
Safeguards rights of developing countries in multinational
trade negotiations.
1980 Requests Israel to return
displaced persons.
1980 Condemns Israeli policy
regarding the living conditions of the Palestinian people.
1980 Condemns Israeli human rights practices in occupied
territories. 3 resolutions.
1980 Afirms the right of
self determination for the Palestinians.
1980 Offers
assistance to the oppressed people of South Africa and their
national liberation movement.
1980 Attempts to establish
a New International Economic Order to promote the growth of
underdeveloped countries and international economic
co-operation.
1980 Endorses the Program of Action for
Second Half of United Nations Decade for Women.
1980
Declaration of non-use of nuclear weapons against
non-nuclear states.
1980 Emphasises that the development
of nations and individuals is a human right.
1980 Calls
for the cessation of all nuclear test explosions.
1980
Calls for the implementation of the Declaration on the
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
1981 Promotes co-operative movements in developing
countries.
1981 Affirms the right of every state to
choose its economic and social system in accord with the
will of its people, without outside interference in whatever
form it takes.
1981 Condemns activities of foreign
economic interests in colonial territories.
1981 Calls
for the cessation of all test explosions of nuclear weapons.
1981 Calls for action in support of measures to prevent
nuclear war, curb the arms race and promote disarmament.
1981 Urges negotiations on prohibition of chemical and
biological weapons.
1981 Declares that education, work,
health care, proper nourishment, national development, etc
are human rights.
1981 Condemns South Africa for attacks
on neighbouring states, condemns apartheid and attempts to
strengthen sanctions. 7 resolutions.
1981 Condemns an
attempted coup by South Africa on the Seychelles.
1981
Condemns Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, human
rights policies, and the bombing of Iraq. 18 resolutions.
1982 Condemns the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. 6
resolutions (1982 to 1983).
1982 Condemns the shooting
of 11 Muslims at a shrine in Jerusalem by an Israeli
soldier.
1982 Calls on Israel to withdraw from the Golan
Heights occupied in 1967.
1982 Condemns apartheid and
calls for the cessation of economic aid to South Africa. 4
resolutions.
1982 Calls for the setting up of a World
Charter for the protection of the ecology.
1982 Sets up
a United Nations conference on succession of states in
respect to state property, archives and debts.
1982
Nuclear test bans and negotiations and nuclear free outer
space. 3 resolutions.
1982 Supports a new world
information and communications order.
1982 Prohibition
of chemical and bacteriological weapons.
1982
Development of international law.
1982 Protects against
products harmful to health and the environment .
1982
Declares that education, work, health care, proper
nourishment, national development are human rights.
1982
Protects against products harmful to health and the
environment.
1982 Development of the energy resources of
developing countries.
1983 Resolutions about apartheid,
nuclear arms, economics, and international law. 15
resolutions.
1984 Condemns support of South Africa in
its Namibian and other policies.
1984 International
action to eliminate apartheid.
1984 Condemns Israel for
occupying and attacking southern Lebanon.
1984
Resolutions about apartheid, nuclear arms, economics, and
international law. 18 resolutions.
1985 Condemns Israel
for occupying and attacking southern Lebanon.
1985
Condemns Israel for using excessive force in the occupied
territories.
1985 Resolutions about cooperation, human
rights, trade and development. 3 resolutions.
1985
Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist
activities .
1986 Calls on all governments (including
the USA) to observe international law.
1986 Imposes
economic and military sanctions against South Africa.
1986 Condemns Israel for its actions against Lebanese
civilians.
1986 Calls on Israel to respect Muslim holy
places.
1986 Condemns Israel for sky-jacking a Libyan
airliner.
1986 Resolutions about cooperation, security,
human rights, trade, media bias, the environment and
development.
8 resolutions.
1987 Calls on Israel to
abide by the Geneva Conventions in its treatment of the
Palestinians.
1987 Calls on Israel to stop deporting
Palestinians.
1987 Condemns Israel for its actions in
Lebanon. 2 resolutions.
1987 Calls on Israel to withdraw
its forces from Lebanon.
1987 Cooperation between the
United Nations and the League of Arab States.
1987 Calls
for compliance in the International Court of Justice
concerning military and paramilitary activities against
Nicaragua and a call to end the trade embargo against
Nicaragua. 2 resolutions.
1987 Measures to prevent
international terrorism, study the underlying political and
economic causes of terrorism, convene a conference to define
terrorism and to differentiate it from the struggle of
people from national liberation.
1987 Resolutions
concerning journalism, international debt and trade. 3
resolutions.
1987 Opposition to the build up of weapons
in space.
1987 Opposition to the development of new
weapons of mass destruction.
1987 Opposition to nuclear
testing. 2 resolutions.
1987 Proposal to set up South
Atlantic "Zone of Peace".
1988 Condemns Israeli
practices against Palestinians in the occupied territories.
5 resolutions (1988 and 1989).
1989 Condemns USA
invasion of Panama.
1989 Condemns USA troops for
ransacking the residence of the Nicaraguan ambassador in
Panama.
1989 Condemns USA support for the Contra army in
Nicaragua.
1989 Condemns illegal USA embargo of
Nicaragua.
1989 Opposing the acquisition of territory by
force.
1989 Calling for a resolution to the Arab-Israeli
conflict based on earlier UN resoltions.
1990 To send
three UN Security Council observers to the occupied
territories.
1995 Afirms that land in East Jerusalem
annexed by Israel is occupied territory.
1997 Calls on
Israel to cease building settlements in East Jerusalem and
other occupied territories. 2 resolutions.
1999 Calls on
the USA to end its trade embargo on Cuba. 8 resolutions
(1992 to 1999).
2001 To send unarmed monitors to the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
2001 To set up the
International Criminal Court.
2002 To renew the peace
keeping mission in Bosnia.
Quotes
Madeleine Albright, former USA Secretary of State to the United Nations:
"[The USA will] behave, with others, multilaterally when we can and unilaterally as we must."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, USA ambassador to the United Nations writing in his book, A Dangerous Place:
"The [USA] Department of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success."
George Bush,
USA president during the bombing of Iraq:
"What we
say goes."
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and Commercial Relationships with Iraq, 1980 - 2 August
1990
http://www.casi.org.uk/info/usdocs/usiraq80s90s.html
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