UN General Assembly
2023

The central issue is of course the exercise of the right to the veto. There should be no right to the veto if it is suspected that the country exercising it may have acted against international law. Estonia supports the proposal of the Accountability. Coherence and Transparency group to limit the right of the veto in cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. The Charter stipulates in Chapter V that a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting in the Security Council. We call on the Council to always implement that provision, as was done in the early decades of the United Nations. It is unacceptable for an aggressor to exercise the right of the veto, making it impossible for the Security Council to act. In fact, there is a way to prevent a Security Council member from abusing its right of the veto. Let us use it.