IPS – West Leads in Wielding Veto Powers at Security Council

...et que Samantha Power oublie combien de fois son pays a pris en otage l’ONU concernant la Palestine.

Et pas que la Palestine,
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2011/10/west-leads-in-wielding-veto-powers-at-security-council

There have been 23 double vetoes by the U.S. and UK and 13 triple vetoes by the U.S., UK and France, [Stephen Zunes] said.

Most of them, he pointed out, were in regard to sanctions and related matters involving South Africa, Namibia or Rhodesia in the 1970s and 1980s.

The last triple veto was in 1989, in a resolution deploring the U.S. invasion of Panama. (UK and France also had two double vetoes during the 1956 Suez crisis.)

“I think it is worth pointing out that the United States holds the U.N. record in terms of vetoing resolutions threatening or imposing sanctions against governments engaged in human rights abuses as well as of resolutions simply deploring or condemning such governments,” Zunes said.