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According to the constitution, “such rulings are subject to full Council veto, in the form of a majority vote...
Russia may have lost its superpower status, but it still has the power of veto on the U.N. Security Council--whose approval could legitimize an attack on Iraq. With that in mind, the Bush Administration sent an envoy to Moscow last week in hopes of persuading Russian President Vladimir Putin to support a tough new U.N. ultimatum on Iraq. TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge reports on why Putin is playing hard to get, why he'll ultimately yield and how he'll try to use the negotiations to pursue his own agenda in neighboring Georgia. At time.com/putin...
...chances of Baghdad accepting such terms are obviously negligible. And the chances of persuading the Security Council to endorse them may not be all that much better. Russia, France and China remain strongly opposed, and all three have the power of veto at the Council. Most of its members don't share Washington's policy of "regime-change" in Baghdad, and are wary of being used simply to set up a legitimate pretext for an invasion already in the works. At the same time, of course, the Security Council members are also painfully aware of Washington's power to implement...
...veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council, Russia rejects the U.S.-British call for a new resolution, although it may eventually cave on that position. But France and China insist on excluding anything that could be construed as authorizing force until the Security Council has determined whether or not Iraq is complying with its undertakings, and that will likely force the U.S. to accept a two-step approach. Other states skeptical of U.S. motivations given that its stated objective is to seek regime-change in Baghdad will seek to soften terms that they see as designed to provoke...
...promised her when the magazine was launched in April 2001. "I cannot have my name on a magazine if I cannot be assured that it will represent my vision and ideas," she said at a press conference. Her contract may give O'Donnell editorial control, but G & J has veto power, which it apparently felt compelled to use when the star it had hitched its magazine to seemed to be turning into someone else. In the past several months, Rosie has shed her friendly suburban TV persona, revealed that she is a lesbian and restyled her hair...