Word: vetoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cities and assassinate suspected terrorists. Israel, however, believes such operations are vital to its own security, and may be loathe to end them - particularly when it's a safe bet that the onset of any renewed negotiations will almost certainly bring new terror attacks inside Israel, the gruesome veto typically deployed by Palestinian radicals to negate previous cease-fire efforts...
...Iraq is simply a recognition of the facts on the ground. It has been abundantly clear for the past month to the member states who had most strongly opposed the war - Russia, Germany, China and France - that history could not be reversed by the power of Security Council veto. And trying once again to block the U.S. at the Security Council would further damage dangerously frayed transatlantic relations, render the UN irrelevant to a world managed by U.S. power, and prolong the humanitarian crisis facing the Iraqi people. Instead, they negotiated for a few weeks to salvage what they could...
...standing in Washington - make Dahlan a threatening figure to the PLO chairman. Palestinian reformists and Western backers of the road map want to limit Arafat's personal power and create a more collective leadership among the Palestinians. But Arafat is not letting go: He insists on maintaining power of veto over all of Abu Mazen's decisions, which the prime minister-designate has refused to grant...
...failed as an agency of global governance. The Security Council is too structurally obtuse to make war, prevent war or even to enforce its own resolutions. The paralysis of the Soviet era has been succeeded by a tyranny of the irrelevant--with France, and its anachronistic veto, as Exhibit A. There is, of course, a fair amount of truth to this: the U.N.'s performance in Bosnia and nonperformance in Rwanda were disgraceful (although the U.S. had a hand in the latter). The French were never serious about enforcing any of the 17 Iraq-related resolutions, including 1441 (but then...
There is recent precedent for this. In 1999 the U.S. knew that Russia would veto any resolution authorizing the use of force against Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo, and so the Security Council was skipped. But quiet negotiations with the Russians--before the first bombs fell--produced an agreement that established the U.N. as the immediate source of humanitarian aid and civil authority after the war (the Russians even agreed to be part of the peacekeeping force). And now the U.N. is quietly planning humanitarian aid for post-Saddam Iraq. There is some debate about who will manage the oil supply...