UN General Assembly
1956

30. So long as the revision of the Charter is not possible, it might be advisable to temper the use of the veto by means of an agreement on the part of the permanent members to heed the resolution [290 (IV) ] adopted by the General Assembly in 1949 on “Essentials of peace”. In substance, that resolution recommends that the powerful veto privilege should not be exercised in deciding whether a question is procedural or not, whether a particular question involves a situation or a dispute and, particularly, in the case of all decisions relating to the peaceful settlement of international problems. 31. Although such agreement would still leave the way open for the use of the veto, the latter would be reduced to a legal weapon for dealing with questions of vital importance, and would no longer be a political weapon to be used in any circumstance, in the just or unjust interests of a -particular State,