Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposals in a report to the Security Council. Russia's Andrei Gromyko asked for time to think it over, and perhaps to wire the home office (where Molotov had just arrived) ; Baruch insisted that Gromyko must agree in three days. He also ruled out any veto against punishments...
...world's will to peace since the Charter was signed at San Francisco. By acclamation, the 54 members of the U.N. recommended that the Security Council frame treaties prohibiting atomic weapons and other instruments of mass destruction, reducing standard armaments, establishing safeguards not subject to the veto. The Assembly also recommended: 1) cooperation with the Atomic Energy Commission; 2) consideration of an international police force; 3) balanced withdrawal of troops from former enemy countries...
Shawcross then read his scribbled resolution. It provided for "the immediate establishment of an international supervisory commission operating within the framework of the Security Council but in its operations not subject to the veto of any Power. . . ." Purpose: to collect information on troops and arms...
...Veto. Many of the U.N.'s small nations wanted the veto power overhauled or abolished. None of the Big Five would give it up, but the Western powers were willing to make some rules restricting its use. Russia's Vishinsky opposed "excessive reglamentation* and formalism." The final resolution, in effect, simply called on the veto-wielding powers to use restraint. The Slav bloc resisted even that much; the vote went against them...
...with five abstentions. Russia & Co. voted against them for several reasons-mainly because a trustee can build air, military or naval bases in certain custodial areas without declaring them "strategic areas" -that is, leaving them out of the Security Council's purview and beyond reach of the veto...