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Security Council reform must be comprehensive and addressed as a single undertaking, including the question of veto, which is intricately linked to the other four clusters. We oppose deferring this issue or addressing it in isolation. We have repeatedly heard from colleagues since this morning the emphasis on core...

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Apparently our US colleagues (Ambassador Mike Waltz, U.S. Mission to the UN) still condescendingly divide the world in two categories: self-proclaimed “rulers of the Universe”, who can do whatever they want “to promote the interests of the US government” (US and its allies) and all the others. In the spirit of Borellish “beautiful garden vs jungle” paradigm. No need to comment anything here. It’s worth reminding for the record however that in the context of Ukrainian crisis Russia has used veto in the Security Council only once, when the proposed “humanitarian” resolution on Ukraine was politicised in breach of the existing practice on these matters. Moreover, we immediately proposed our own draft: an exact replica of the vetoed one but without politicised passages. Here’s a link to our explanation of the vote on that day: As for the US, it has already used its veto 5 times since October 7 to shield Israel from any responsibility for its actions in Gaza. Once it even prevented Security Council to condemn Hamas action, a fact that the US doesn’t like to recall. And according to our US colleague, she doesn’t see any need to make any excuses for paralysing the Council’s work on Middle East. All this makes the US first degree accomplice of Israel’s crimes in Gaza and the murder of almost 42 thousand civilians. This is unbecoming of the UN SC Permanent member. Yes, veto is not just a privilege but an instrument to prevent one-sided decisions. But it is the US who abuses it like in the case with Gaza. Besides, US and its allies have the majority in the Council and they can easily use “a hidden veto” by outnumbering others and without recourse to the actual veto. That’s why we need such a reform of the SC where the collective West doesn’t have the sheer numbers that allow it to manipulate the Council.

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