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Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2012

Yalta formula.The provisions which find expression in Article 27 of the UN *Charter on the voting procedure of the *Security Council, including (therefore) the *veto; so called because it was agreed at the Soviet Crimean resort of Yalta at a summit meeting of the Big Three (the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain) in February 1945.