Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hammarskjold's vacant post of Secretary-General. The Soviet plan no longer encompassed merely a troika, a three-headed executive. Now Russian Delegate Valerian Zorin was talking about a four-man body-two neutralists (African and Asian), a Communist and a Westerner -each, presumably, with a veto over the others that would render the whole operation useless. Said one U.N. diplomat: "You could call them the four Marxist Brothers...
...well-known Soviet points: Russia will not accept a treaty to end nuclear tests, said Gromyko, for the whole matter should be tied in with (and, presumably, stalled by) the tangled question of overall disarmament; Red China must be named a member of the U.N. without delay; a veto-bound, multiple executive must replace the post of Secretary-General...
...Even this was partly an accident; the Security Council resolution to intervene passed only because the Russians, boycotting the sessions, were not on hand to cast their veto in the crucial ballot...
...China maneuver depends on the votes of at least a dozen new African nations who have proposed an intricate bargain in exchange for their support. They want West Africa's little Mauritania to get membership this session. Cleverly, Moscow enters the picture with a threat to veto Mauritania unless one of its own pets, Outer Mongolia, a puppet republic embedded in Red China, gets in the club at the same time. So the Africans have told the U.S.: Accept both Outer Mongolia and Mauritania as U.N. members, and we will vote with you against Red China-at least this...
...article written weeks ago for the October issue of Foreign Affairs, Fulbright declares that the "grand innovation" of a U.N. as a global executive has failed "because it defied history and falsely assumed the existence of a community of the great powers." In the Security Council, the veto reflects the realities of power politics; in the General Assembly, anarchy rules. "A body in which Guatemala or Bulgaria exercises the same voting power as the United States or the Soviet Union can scarcely be expected to serve as a reliable instrument of peace enforcement or even of consultation...