Word: vetoes
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...allies turned there very early in their efforts to deal with the danger of atomic weapons. On June 14, 1946, the U.S. proposed in the United Nations the Baruch plan. Main features: i) the U.S. would turn its (then) atomic monopoly over to an international agency (with no veto power for members), and 2) the agreements of the atomic powers would be guaranteed by a workable system of inspection. This was no show-window design; it was perhaps the most remarkable offer in the history of nations, made in all good faith at a time when U.S. military power...
...offensive action.Something more must be done.The U.S.’s first step should be to push for a Security Council resolution that enables UN peacekeepers to directly intervene in Sudan. Due to economic interests, however, China and Russia are unlikely to join in such a resolution and could veto any resolution of which Khartoum might disapprove. We are not hopeful that discussions with China and Russia will lead to UN-led action in Sudan, although the U.S. should still encourage such discussions and should push for the inclusion of the issue on the agenda of the G8 meetings this...
...mapping a plan to hit the defiant regime. But the attacks will be financial, not military. The U.S. and its European allies will ask the council next month for a resolution that would pave the way for political and economic sanctions. If, as expected, Russia and China threaten a veto or stall, the U.S. intends to work outside the U.N. to isolate Tehran "diplomatically and economically," Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said last week. "Countries that trade with Iran ... ought to begin to rethink those commercial trade relationships...
...Kahangire, executive director of the NBI secretariat and former head of Uganda's national water department, says that Nile development should help all the countries that share the river. There are still many hurdles. Egypt, for instance, is meeting resistance over its demands that it be given an effective veto over all proposed development. It also wants to be allowed to keep the historic agreements that assure it a minimum quantity of Nile water, which other countries question. "These issues could take many years," says Abdel Fattah Metawie, chairman of Egypt's Nile Water Sector, a department of the Ministry...
...some of the Western Europeans want China to support U.N.-imposed sanctions against the rogue regime until it shuts down its uranium enrichment facility and other nuclear activities. As one of the five veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, China has always opposed sanctions, but White House officials insist that Bush won?t be wasting his breath...