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Security Council veto. The UN is one of the more useless bodies in existence. Their principal function is to make everybody "feel good" ("the United Nations wil
by FridayoLeary 5y ago
Security Council veto. The UN is one of the more useless bodies in existence. Their principal function is to make everybody "feel good" ("the United Nations will sort <insert crisis here> out!") and issue meaningless resolutions.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Security Council veto. ...the UNGA adopted a bypass mechanism in 1950, and it was first used in 1951 and had been used several times since.
- FridayoLeary 5y ago...but almost certainly not be used to force through a resolution condemning China. The only organisation that was less ineffective then the UN was the League of Nations (minus the US)
- dragonwriter 5y ago> but almost certainly not be used to force through a resolution condemning China Why not? The very first use of Uniting For Peace was to condemn China and call on all States to actively resist Chinese aggression.