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  • Re: Ideas of reforming the United Nations, Part 1 (Preliminary Remark and Abstract)

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.politics.org.un,nz.politics on Sun Feb 15 05:35:06 2026
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    On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:20:36 +0100, pacifico wrote:

    Voting rules shall ensure that necessary decisions cannot be blocked
    by one or a few states (or rather leaders) unwilling to cooperate.
    The right of veto in UN-Charter, Art. 27 (permanent members of the
    Security Council have to concur) shall be abolished.

    I can see massive objections to that from current vested interests.

    It might be slightly more palatable to just water down the veto right
    a little bit. For example, if it takes at least two permanent members
    of the Security Council to vote no for a veto, rather than just one as
    at present, that might loosen some of the logjam over troublesome
    issues like Israel.
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