The second basic assumption on which the United Nations was founded was that the big states would not have the right of vote or veto in the peaceful settlement of controversies to which they were a ...

Of the council's 15 members, 13 voted in favour, while Russia - one of five permanent members with a veto - voted against and China abstained. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN ...

As UN Secretary-General António Guterres noted ... they may decide not to bring the issue before the council for a vote. VETOING THE VETO The idea of reforming the council so that the five permanent ...

While a General Assembly vote cannot confer UN membership, the approved resolution ... The US has already warned that it will ...

A vote on Palestinian membership of the UN failed at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday night. The vote failed due to the US's no vote, which, due to its position as a permanent ...

The United States exercised its veto power Thursday within the United Nations Security Council to ... on behalf of the Arab Group, received 12 votes in favor (including those from France, Japan ...

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov warned today that Moscow could "if necessary" use its veto to block a new United Nations resolution ... if they could get enough votes among the 15-member ...

UNITED NATIONS--A veto Thursday by Russia ended monitoring ... The veto came during a vote on a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have extended the mandate of a panel of experts ...

The UN Security Council on Wednesday called on Israel to reverse the decision to ban a United Nations agency that has ...

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council is likely to vote on Tuesday on an Algerian ... a move the United States signaled it would veto. Algeria put forward an initial draft resolution ...

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III on Friday urged Philippine diplomats to support efforts to implement reforms in ...

But one official has remained quiet on the matter: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who has the power to veto the vote. Since the City Commission voted Tuesday afternoon to approve lifetime pensions ...