Russia and the United States on Monday, November 7, spoke against making any changes to the procedure for the use of the veto for the permanent members of the UN security Council. About it reports TASS.
In this issue, Moscow and Washington disagreed with Paris and London, whose representatives at the meeting of the UN General Assembly called for the restriction of the veto.
According to the Deputy of Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vladimir Safronkov, the institution of the veto is an important factor that encourages Council members to search for balanced solutions. “To encroach on the right of veto it would be wrong from a historical and political point of view,” he said.
In turn, zampolpreda United States noted that Washington continued to act “against any change in veto”, and Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi urged not to impose “immature proposals” on reform of the security Council.
A proposal to restrict the use of the veto in situations where urgent action is needed to prevent mass crimes by the President of France françois Hollande in 2013.
The initiative does not introduce formal changes in the UN Charter. It is proposed that at the request of at least 50 countries, the Secretary-General assessed the situation. If their actions will be qualified as serious offences, for example, genocide or war crimes, will involve a “gentleman’s agreement” on the voluntary relinquishment of the veto power.
The initiative assumes that the mechanism will not function, when it affects the national interests of at least one of the permanent members of the security Council.