A history of US vetoes in the U.N.

Koba The Dread

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Perhaps some of you may find some interest in this. I did.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2000.htm
30 Years Of U.S. UN Vetoes.

1972-2002 Vetoes from the USA
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Year -----Resolution Vetoed by the USA
1972 Condemns Israel for killing hundreds of people in Syria and Lebanon in air raids.
1973 Afirms the rights of the Palestinians and calls on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.
1976 Condemns Israel for attacking Lebanese civilians.
1976 Condemns Israel for building settlements in the occupied territories.
1976 Calls for self determination for the Palestinians.
1976 Afirms the rights of the Palestinians.
1978 Urges the permanent members (USA, USSR, UK, France, China) to insure United Nations decisions on the maintenance of international peace and security.
1978 Criticises the living conditions of the Palestinians.
1978 Condemns the Israeli human rights record in occupied territories.
1978 Calls for developed countries to increase the quantity and quality of development assistance to underdeveloped countries.
1979 Calls for an end to all military and nuclear collaboration with the apartheid South Africa.
1979 Strengthens the arms embargo against South Africa.
1979 Offers assistance to all the oppressed people of South Africa and their liberation movement.
1979 Concerns negotiations on disarmament and cessation of the nuclear arms race.
1979 Calls for the return of all inhabitants expelled by Israel.
1979 Demands that Israel desist from human rights violations.
1979 Requests a report on the living conditions of Palestinians in occupied Arab countries.
1979 Offers assistance to the Palestinian people.
1979 Discusses sovereignty over national resources in occupied Arab territories.
1979 Calls for protection of developing counties' exports.
1979 Calls for alternative approaches within the United Nations system for improving the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
1979 Opposes support for intervention in the internal or external affairs of states.
1979 For a United Nations Conference on Women.
1979 To include Palestinian women in the United Nations Conference on Women.
1979 Safeguards rights of developing countries in multinational trade negotiations.
1980 Requests Israel to return displaced persons.
1980 Condemns Israeli policy regarding the living conditions of the Palestinian people.
1980 Condemns Israeli human rights practices in occupied territories. 3 resolutions.
1980 Afirms the right of self determination for the Palestinians.
1980 Offers assistance to the oppressed people of South Africa and their national liberation movement.
1980 Attempts to establish a New International Economic Order to promote the growth of underdeveloped countries and international economic co-operation.
1980 Endorses the Program of Action for Second Half of United Nations Decade for Women.
1980 Declaration of non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
1980 Emphasises that the development of nations and individuals is a human right.
1980 Calls for the cessation of all nuclear test explosions.
1980 Calls for the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
1981 Promotes co-operative movements in developing countries.
1981 Affirms the right of every state to choose its economic and social system in accord with the will of its people, without outside interference in whatever form it takes.
1981 Condemns activities of foreign economic interests in colonial territories.
1981 Calls for the cessation of all test explosions of nuclear weapons.
1981 Calls for action in support of measures to prevent nuclear war, curb the arms race and promote disarmament.
1981 Urges negotiations on prohibition of chemical and biological weapons.
1981 Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development, etc are human rights.
1981 Condemns South Africa for attacks on neighbouring states, condemns apartheid and attempts to strengthen sanctions. 7 resolutions.
1981 Condemns an attempted coup by South Africa on the Seychelles.
1981 Condemns Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, human rights policies, and the bombing of Iraq. 18 resolutions.
1982 Condemns the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. 6 resolutions (1982 to 1983).
1982 Condemns the shooting of 11 Muslims at a shrine in Jerusalem by an Israeli soldier.
1982 Calls on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights occupied in 1967.
1982 Condemns apartheid and calls for the cessation of economic aid to South Africa. 4 resolutions.
1982 Calls for the setting up of a World Charter for the protection of the ecology.
1982 Sets up a United Nations conference on succession of states in respect to state property, archives and debts.
1982 Nuclear test bans and negotiations and nuclear free outer space. 3 resolutions.
1982 Supports a new world information and communications order.
1982 Prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons.
1982 Development of international law.
1982 Protects against products harmful to health and the environment .
1982 Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development are human rights.
1982 Protects against products harmful to health and the environment.
1982 Development of the energy resources of developing countries.
1983 Resolutions about apartheid, nuclear arms, economics, and international law. 15 resolutions.
1984 Condemns support of South Africa in its Namibian and other policies.
1984 International action to eliminate apartheid.
1984 Condemns Israel for occupying and attacking southern Lebanon.
1984 Resolutions about apartheid, nuclear arms, economics, and international law. 18 resolutions.
1985 Condemns Israel for occupying and attacking southern Lebanon.
1985 Condemns Israel for using excessive force in the occupied territories.
1985 Resolutions about cooperation, human rights, trade and development. 3 resolutions.
1985 Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities .
1986 Calls on all governments (including the USA) to observe international law.
1986 Imposes economic and military sanctions against South Africa.
1986 Condemns Israel for its actions against Lebanese civilians.
1986 Calls on Israel to respect Muslim holy places.
1986 Condemns Israel for sky-jacking a Libyan airliner.
1986 Resolutions about cooperation, security, human rights, trade, media bias, the environment and development.
8 resolutions.
1987 Calls on Israel to abide by the Geneva Conventions in its treatment of the Palestinians.
1987 Calls on Israel to stop deporting Palestinians.
1987 Condemns Israel for its actions in Lebanon. 2 resolutions.
1987 Calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon.
1987 Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States.
1987 Calls for compliance in the International Court of Justice concerning military and paramilitary activities against Nicaragua and a call to end the trade embargo against Nicaragua. 2 resolutions.
1987 Measures to prevent international terrorism, study the underlying political and economic causes of terrorism, convene a conference to define terrorism and to differentiate it from the struggle of people from national liberation.
1987 Resolutions concerning journalism, international debt and trade. 3 resolutions.
1987 Opposition to the build up of weapons in space.
1987 Opposition to the development of new weapons of mass destruction.
1987 Opposition to nuclear testing. 2 resolutions.
1987 Proposal to set up South Atlantic "Zone of Peace".
1988 Condemns Israeli practices against Palestinians in the occupied territories. 5 resolutions (1988 and 1989).
1989 Condemns USA invasion of Panama.
1989 Condemns USA troops for ransacking the residence of the Nicaraguan ambassador in Panama.
1989 Condemns USA support for the Contra army in Nicaragua.
1989 Condemns illegal USA embargo of Nicaragua.
1989 Opposing the acquisition of territory by force.
1989 Calling for a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict based on earlier UN resoltions.
1990 To send three UN Security Council observers to the occupied territories.
1995 Afirms that land in East Jerusalem annexed by Israel is occupied territory.
1997 Calls on Israel to cease building settlements in East Jerusalem and other occupied territories. 2 resolutions.
1999 Calls on the USA to end its trade embargo on Cuba. 8 resolutions (1992 to 1999).
2001 To send unarmed monitors to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
2001 To set up the International Criminal Court.
2002 To renew the peace keeping mission in Bosnia.


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2002 - On the killing by Israeli forces of several UN employees and the destruction of the World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse
2003 - Demand that Israel halt threats to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
2003 - Seeks to bar Israel from extending security fence
2004 - Condemns Israel for killing Ahmed Yassin


 

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SoupySayles said:
Wow, good thing Israel had someone looking out for them all those years. I never realized how anti-Israel the UN was til I read that.
The UN has way outlived its usefulness, time to be rid of that albatross....
 
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The UN itself is made up of the many states of the world and it is those states who propose these resolutions which are then voted on....

Please tell me why the US would need to veto resolutions such as......
-Israel for killing hundreds of people in Syria and Lebanon in air raids.
-Israel for attacking Lebanese civilians
-Offers assistance to the Palestinian people.
-Affirms the right of every state to choose its economic and social system in accord with the will of its people, without outside interference in whatever form it takes.
-Opposition to the development of new weapons of mass destruction :D
-Calls on Israel to respect Muslim holy places.
-Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities :confused:

With almost all of the resolutions in the first post, only the United States vetoed them. Every other country supported it or abstained.

 
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Koba The Dread said:
With almost all of the resolutions in the first post, only the United States vetoed them. Every other country supported it or abstained.

That doesn't necessarily mean much of anything. In democratic politics, especially when there's a veto involved, looking at one's voting record is not always going to be as straightforward as it seems. If you know someone else is going to take the fall and do something unpopular, as the US did in many of these cases, then why stick your neck out as well if you gain absolutely nothing by it? The very same thing happens in the House and Senate where senators and congressman change their votes at the last second on issues that are clearly going to win or fail irregardless of their vote on the matter. There is much more strategy to voting than simply going w/ your heart-felt convictions on a particular matter.
 
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The Security Council has long outlived its usefulness. Both the US record on Anti-Israel resolutions and the French stand on Iraq show how one stubborn veto-holding nation can hold back progress. All of the UN is bureaucracy, and needs reform. The only problem is that the nations with the power don't want to give it up, so it just needs to be dissolved - just like the League of Nations before it.
 
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Agreed. The UN curently serves no useful purpose. Ther is nothing the UN has accomplished that couldn't have been accomplished without it. There are however, as the previous poster stated, several examples of on estubborn nation vetoing what most other member nations stand for. time to put this dinosaur to rest.
 
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I also agree that the UN needs to be dissolved or at the very least, we need to get out of it. I just don't like the idea of other countries making resolutions that affect us as I'm sure others countries don't like us making resolutions against them. I am particularlly ticked about the UN's push to take weapons out of the hands of everday people. They think the US needs to abolish private firearm ownership, which as a gun owner really irks me. Firearms have been the teeth of democracy and the mark of the truly free man for hundreds of years and I really don't like the idea of giving up my guns. All I have to say is look at Switzerland, every male their has a true assault rifle capable of fully automatic fire and there is very little crime and no one has even tried to invade them for hundreds of years. Now that is a democracy with staying power.
 
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