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The Power to Say No: 80 Years of Vetoes at the UN Security Council

Geopolitics | 322 vetoes against 265 proposals reveal how the five permanent members have used the same rule for different political ends.

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Delegates seated around a horseshoe-shaped table in a crowded hall, with rows of observers and press standing behind them, at an early meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
The first meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York on March 25, 1946. Underwood Archives/Getty Images

On February 16, 1946, less than a month after the Security Council first met, th…

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