Le système du veto a été établi pour protéger les intérêts des membres fondateurs des Nations unies qui étaient sortis victorieux de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
A fin février 2011, le veto a été utilisé 264 fois avec, par ordre d'importance :
- 124 fois par l'Union soviétique/Russie;
- 82 fois par les États-Unis;
- 32 fois par le Royaume-Uni;
- 18 fois par la France;
- 8 fois par la Chine.
La chine membre fondateur des nations unies?????
Selon Wikipédia.
Historique des Vetos US :
1972 - Condemns Israel for killing hundreds of people in Syria and Lebanon in air raids.
1973 - Afirms the rights of the Palestinians and calls on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories
1976 - Condemns Israel for attacking Lebanese civilians.
- Condemns Israel for building settlements in the occupied territories.
- Calls for self determination for the Palestinians.
- Afirms the rights of the Palestinians
1978 - Criticises the living conditions of the Palestinians.
- Condemns the Israeli human rights record in occupied territories.
1979 - Calls for the return of all inhabitants expelled by Israel.
- Requests a report on the living conditions of Palestinians in occupied Arab
countries.
- Offers assistance to the Palestinian people.
- Discusses sovereignty over national resources in occupied Arab territories.
- To include Palestinian women in the United Nations Conference on Women.
1980 - Requests Israel to return displaced persons.
- Condemns Israeli policy regarding the living conditions of the Palestinian people. - Condemns Israeli human rights practices in occupied territories.
- Afirms the right of self determination for the Palestinians.
1981 - Affirms the right of every state to choose its economic and social system in accord
with the will of its people, without outside interference in whatever form it takes.
- Condemns activities of foreign economic interests in colonial territories.
- Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national
development, etc are human rights.
- Condemns South Africa for attacks on neighbouring states, condemns apartheid and
attempts to strengthen sanctions.
- Demands that Israel cease excavations in areas of East Jerusalem considered by the
United Nations to be part of the occupied territories.
- Condemns Israel for bombing Iraqi nuclear installations.
- Condemns Israeli policy regarding living conditions of the Palestinian people.
- To establish a nuclear weapon free zone in the Middle East.
- To establish rights for the Palestinian people.
- To clarify the status of Jerusalem.
- Discusses Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.
- Concering the rights of displaced Palestinians to return to their homes.
- Concerning revenues from Palestinian refugees' properties.
- Establishment of the University of Jerusalem for Palestinian refugees.
- Concerning Israeli human rights violations in occupied territories.
- Condemns Israel closing of universities in occupied territories.
- Discusses sovereignty over national resources in occupied Palestine and other Arab
territories.
- Affirms the non-applicability of Israeli law over the Golan Heights.
1982 - Condemns the shooting of 11 Muslims at a shrine in Jerusalem by an Israeli soldier.
- For the ratification of the convention on the suppression and punishment of
apartheid.
- To promote international action against apartheid.
- Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national
development are human rights.
- Prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons.
1984 - Condemns Israel for occupying and attacking southern Lebanon.
- Affirms the rights of the Palestinian people.
- For the convening of a Middle East peace conference.
- Prohibition of new types of weapons of mass destruction.
- Concerning Israeli human rights violations in occupied territories.
- Condemns assassination attempts against Palestinian mayors.
- Condemns Israel for failing to place its nuclear facilities under international
safeguards.
1985 - Condemns Israel for using excessive force in the occupied territories.
1986 - Calls on Israel to respect Muslim holy places.
- Condemns Israel for sky-jacking a Libyan airliner.
- Declaration on the right to development.
1987 - Calls on Israel to abide by the Geneva Conventions in its treatment of the
Palestinians.
- Calls on Israel to stop deporting Palestinians.
- Condemns Israel for its actions in Lebanon.
- Calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon.
- Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States.
- Measures to prevent international terrorism, study the underlying political and
economic causes of terrorism, convene a conference to define terrorism and to
differentiate it from the struggle of people from national liberation.
- Opposition to the development of new weapons of mass destruction.
1988 - Condemns Israeli practices against Palestinians in the occupied territories.
1989 - Opposing the acquisition of territory by force.
- Calling for a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict based on earlier UN resoltions.
1990 - To send three UN Security Council observers to the occupied territories.
1995 - Afirms that land in East Jerusalem annexed by Israel is occupied territory.
1997 - Calls on Israel to cease building settlements in East Jerusalem and other occupied
territories.
2001 - To send unarmed monitors to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- Condemns Israel for acts of terror against civilians in the occupied territories. - To set up the International Criminal Court..
2002 - Condemns the killing of UK worker for the United Nations by Israeli forces.
- Condemns the destruction of the World Food Programme warehouse.
2003 - Condemns a decision by the Israeli parliament to "remove" the elected Palestinian
president, Yasser Arafat.
- Condemns the building of a wall by Israel on Palestinian land.
2004 - Condemns the assassination of Hamas leader, Sheik Ahmad Yassin.
- Condemns the Israeli incursion and killings in Gaza.
2006 - Calls for an end to Israeli military incursions and attacks on Gaza.
2007 - Calls for a convention against female descrimination.
- Concerning the rights of children.
- Concerning the right to food.
- On the applicability of the Geneva Convention to the protection of civilians in time
of war.
- Calls for the protection of the global climate.
- Calls for the right of self determination for the Palestinian people. Other resolutions
regarding the Palestinians and their rights.
2008 - Banning the development of new weapons of mass destruction.
- Calls to end the use of depleted Uranium in weapons.
- Concerning the trade in illicit small arms.
- Calls for a treaty on children's rights.
- Affirms the soverignty of Palestinians over the occupied territories and their
resources.
- Affirms the right of the Palestinians to self determination.
- Calls on Israel to pay the cost of cleaning up an oil slick off the coast of Lebanon
caused by its bombing.
- Calls for a right to food.
- Resolutions concerning Palestine, its people, their property and Israeli practices in
Palestine, including settlements.
2009 - Calls for an end to the 22 day long Israeli attack on Gaza.
2011 - Calls for a halt to the illegal Israeli West Bank settlements.
- Calls for Israel to cease obstructing the movement and access of the staff, vehicles
and supplies of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian
Refugees (UNRWA).
- Calls for the immediate and complete cessation of all Israeli settlement
activities in all of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan.