UN General Assembly
1964

6. I can, of course, understand, and indeed sympathize with, the attitude of a great Power which might wish to establish for itself a second veto — a financial veto - on the peace-keeping operations of the United Nations. But when the Charter was vising framed at; San Francisco, it was deliberately and expressly drafted to give the Assembly the power to act by a two-thirds majority as a counterweight — "le contrepoids" as one statesman put it — to the Security Council. Neither the Charter nor the "Uniting for Peace”resolution envisages this second veto. Any attempt to establish it now can only be regarded as a revolutionary act designed to destroy, first, the right of the Assembly to decide on assessments for peace-keeping operations, even those unanimously adopted by the Security Council and, secondly, to destroy the vital modicum of power residing in a two-thirds majority of the Assembly to answer an appeal for a peace-keeping force when, and only when, the Security Council has refused to give assistance through lack of unanimity of the permanent members.