Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians, who in the past have usually threatened to use their veto in support of the Arabs, backed Moroccan amendments watering down the U.S.British resolution; the Moroccan version avoided condemnation of Syria and merely registered "regrets for the death of two persons...
Faced with thousands of individual decisions that had awaited Britain's expected entry, both British and Continental businessmen took another look at the situation after De Gaulle's veto, decided that they could live with it-and went on from there. Ignoring De Gaulle, the Common Market recently agreed to meet quarterly with British officials to exchange information, work out problems, and devise new ways to bring Britain closer to the Six. British exports to the Common Market were $280 million higher in the first half of 1963 than in 1961's first half, and British investment...
...signers to renounce the agreement unilaterally upon three months' advance notice any time "extraordinary events . . . have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country." The treaty invites any and all nations to become signatories. While amendments can be proposed by any new subscriber, the three original signers have a veto power over future changes...
...conference recommended partial abolition of the veto: henceforth it should not be permitted when a dispute can be settled peacefully. But there was plainly no desire to get involved in the touchy issue of U.N. financing...
...designed to get Egypt and Saudi Arabia out of the Yemeni civil war. No sooner had Secretary-General U Thant announced the project than the Soviet Union called for a Security Council meeting this week, in an evident attempt to bring the Yemeni mission within range of the Russian veto...