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The Soviet Union was not present in the Security Council to veto UN Security Council Resolutions 83 (27 June 1950) and 84 (7 July 1950), authorizing assistance to South Korea in the Korean War. [43] The Soviet Union returned to the Security Council in August 1950 and resumed its usage of the veto.
Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter sets out the UN Security Council's powers to maintain peace.It allows the Council to "determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" and to take military and nonmilitary action to "restore international peace and security".
The Security Council must be able to take leadership in maintaining international peace and security. Thus Lithuania supports substantial reform for the better, equitable representation in both categories, permanent or non-permanent, through the inclusion of Germany and Japan, as well as certain other leading countries from other regions.
The Security Council adopted a resolution on March 25 demanding a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with the U.S. abstaining, but there was no halt to the war.
Robert Wood, deputy U.S. ambassador to the U.N., called for members of the Security Council with influence over Iran "to increase pressure on it to stop escalating its proxy conflict against ...
The U.N. Security Council on Monday failed again to agree on a resolution on the monthlong Israel-Hamas war. The U.S. is calling for “humanitarian pauses” while many other council members are ...
The Security Council reaffirmed this responsibility to protect in Resolution 1706 on 31 August of that year. [65] These resolutions commit the Security Council to protect civilians in an armed conflict, including taking action against genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. [66]
The council put the embargo on Somalia in 1992 to cut the flow of weapons to feuding warlords, who had ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and plunged the Horn of Africa country into civil war.