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The United Nations: Then and Now

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“We do not want to entrust to five great Powers or to two great Powers the task of deciding … what our common destiny will be…”.To anyone who attended the great assemblage gathered at San Francisco in 1945 to write the Charter for the United Nations, these words have a familiar ring. Indeed, they might have been uttered (and no doubt were ad nauseam) by small-power representatives during the seemingly interminable debates over the rule of unanimity—the veto—in the Security Council. In fact, these words were spoken in February 1965 by the Mauritanian delegate explaining, on the final day of the “abortive” nineteenth session of the General Assembly, why he voted with Albania in protest against the “basis of consensus” which had governed the session.

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  • Finkelstein, Lawrence S., 1965. "The United Nations: Then and Now," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 19(3), pages 367-393, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:intorg:v:19:y:1965:i:03:p:367-393_01
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