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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (20756)	3/14/2003 11:25:39 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

France argues that the veto is an accepted part of the Security Council machinery of the UN. It was created precisely to set up the kinds of "checks and balances" in the UN system which exist in many national constitutions. France has used its veto only 18 times before; the US has used its veto 76 times. Washington now argues that a Security Council majority, obstructed by a French veto, would be a "moral majority". This amounts to admitting, French officials say, that Washington has thwarted a moral majority in the Security Council on 76 occasions since 1945. _______________________ From: news.independent.co.uk