The UAE called for reform and reconsideration of the veto power enjoyed by some major countries in the UN Security Council during a Wednesday evening discussion on using the power in the General Assembly. This was mainly in light of the misuse of the veto power to stop the war in the Gaza Strip.
“There is no single context that demonstrates the failures of the current Security Council system and the restrictions imposed on it more than the situation in Palestine, where the veto was used 37 times, in this file is from,” stated Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE’s permanent representative to the UN, during her speech at the meeting.
She continued, “This dynamic was painfully clear in preventing the Council from calling for a ceasefire on humanitarian grounds first, which would put an end to the devastation in Gaza, in violation of the declared will of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and 153 member states of the United Nations.”
The delegate went on to say that the UN Security Council will become “an arena in which the protection of national interests trumps the maintenance of international peace and security” as a result of the Council’s repeated inability to stop numerous tragedies around the world, including the ongoing war in Gaza, and its misuse of the veto power. This is a cause for concern, especially in light of the current worldwide.
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