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I'm pretty sure the 5 permanent members are 'made men' and can't be revoked, but even if there were a mechanism, you can bet that China would veto it. The UN i
by jbooth 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the 5 permanent members are 'made men' and can't be revoked, but even if there were a mechanism, you can bet that China would veto it.
The UN isn't NATO -- the whole point of it is to have a common forum for countries that aren't military allies and have conflicting interests.
- dragonwriter 13y agoIf the governments with a permanent UNSC seat couldn't lose that seat, the (People's Republic of) China wouldn't have a vote at all.
- jbooth 13y agoHa, fair enough. That slipped my mind, and now I'm going to go read up on the details of how exactly that happened, mechanically. EDIT: Just a general assembly vote was enough, apparently. That's a weird situation all around though, hard to analogize to kicking a country off (as opposed to deciding who speaks for that country).
- dragonwriter 13y ago> That's a weird situation all around though, hard to analogize to kicking a country off It takes a 2/3 vote in the GA to expel a country completely from the UN. (See Articles 6 and 18 of the Charter.)