Britain to voluntarily limit UN veto — envoy
The United Kingdom, a permanent member of the UN Security
Council, backs France’s proposal to voluntarily undertake not to use the veto
when urgent measures are needed to stop mass atrocity, Britain’s UN Ambassador
Matthew Rycroft said.
"We support the principle of the French initiative — we
do not envisage a situation where the UK would use its veto to block action in
response to a mass atrocity. Implementation, with support of the other five
permanent members of the Security Council, remains an unresolved
question," Rycroft said in an interview, reports Tass.
The British diplomat reminded that his country last time
used the veto right in 1989 when the draft resolution was being considered that
called on the US to immediately stop military intervention in Panama. The US
also voted against document.
French President Francois Hollande called on major powers —
China, France, Russia, Britain and the United States — to voluntarily limit
their UN veto in 2013.
Moscow opposes any changes to the order of using the veto
right which allows the permanent members of the UN Security Council to block
the resolutions even if they gain the necessary majority of the vote.
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