What might Russia’s veto mean in its approach to implementing and expressing its foreign policy within the UNSC?
On August 30, 2023, the UN Security Council (UNSC) voted on extending its sanctions regime against Mali. These measures aimed to renew a travel ban and asset ...
... situation in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China.
Among the priority issues announced by the U.S. Permanent Representative are reforming the UN Security Council and other institutions, the way the Council’s permanent members resort to their veto powers, as well as holding a food security summit on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, where U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to participate as a co-chair.
Andrey Kortunov:
Time for a Consolidated Russian-Chinese Approach ...
... Expert Analyzes 7th JIM report
On November 16,
the Security Council
failed to
renew
for another year the mandate
of the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (hereinafter “JIM”) set to expire
on November 17. The US draft was rejected by Russian veto (voting 11 in favour,
2 against, 2 abstained). The Russian draft was also rejected by the Security
Council (4 in favour, 7 against, 4 abstained). The next day, another draft
resolution, tabled by Japan, was
vetoed
by Russia (12 in favour, 2 against,...
... represented, but India is absent. France and the United Kingdom are present, but Germany or the European Union as a whole are not. Neither Africa nor the Middle East nor Latin America are represented. As for procedures, the primary bone of contention is the veto enjoyed by the five permanent members, which allows any of the Big Five to block any and all decisions that fail to please them.
Andrey Kortunov:
The Day the United Nations Ceased to Exist
It is clear that the first of the two problems looks more ...
... downing, Malaysia introduced a draft resolution to the UN Security Council, which proposed a special tribunal for investigating the crime and prosecuting its perpetrators. Despite the support of this resolution from the Council’s majority, Russia vetoed it on July 29, 2015. This move was met with an international outcry, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power being among the first. “Russia has tried to deny justice to the 298 victims on that plane,” Power
said
. While the U.S.-led ...
With the 70th anniversary of the United Nations celebrated this fall, France has made a big splash by proposing limiting the right of veto exercised by the permanent members of the UN Security Council, i.e. by Russia, China, United Kingdom, the United States and France. But these ostensibly good intentions of preventing crimes against humanity appear to be an attempt to pave the way ...