UN General Assembly
1948

The report submitted by the Interim Committee, which had been asked by the previous session of the General Assembly to study the question of the veto showed that conscientious work had been done. The Interim Committee’s recommendations on that subject deserved the Assembly’s attention. The Committee had singled out a number of possible Security Council decisions which it considered to be procedural in character and therefore not subject to the veto. It had also mentioned certain decisions which, in its opinion, were less likely to involve political considerations and might therefore be taken without applying the unanimity rule. It had also suggested rules for the exercise of the veto, rules which it considered the permanent members of the Security Council ought normally to have followed. It seemed that the adoption of some of the Interim Committee’s recommendations would help to eliminate some abuses.