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• Debate:UN Security Council Veto

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• "The Security Council Veto Power, or Got Nuke?". Incite. December 05, 2004 - "I've read/heard a number of people lately talking about reforming the Security Council. A lot of the reason they talk about that is because they've convinced themselves that the real problem with the UN these days is that the Security Council isn't fairly constituted--those damn permanent members and their veto power has a lot of people in fits. I've even seen reasonable, intelligent people getting drawn into the reshape-the-security-council discussion.

First of all, changing the SC, no matter how you go about it, is going to do nothing to solve the UN's problems. I want to make that clear first and foremost. The problems with the UN go far deeper than the apportionment of SC veto power."

• Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. and Brett D. Schaefer. "U.N. Security Council Expansion Is Not in the U.S. Interest". Heritage Foundation. August 18, 2005 - "the Administration believes that any vote on expansion should follow implementation of other, more urgent U.N. reforms.[4] The U.S. has argued that management failures, corruption, and lack of transparency and accountability do far more to undermine the effectiveness and reputation of the U.N. than the composition of the Security Council and that these issues should be the imme­diate focus of reform discussions."