[Reader-list] List of US vetoes in the last 30 yrs

[Avishek Ganguly]

Interesting. . .
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Vetos
A list of resolutions vetoed by the USA 1972-2002
by Anonymous; March 15, 2003

[NOTE to readers: This list came to us by email, and
although we are unsure who collected the information,
it appears accurate to us on a quick check.  -- ZNet.]

List of resolutions vetoed by the USA 1972 - 2002

(Russia has used their veto TWICE)

Year         Resolution Vetoed by the USA

1972 Condemns Israel for killing hundreds of people in
       Syria and Lebanon in air raids.
1973 Afirms the rights of the Palestinians and calls
on
       Israel to withdraw from the occupied   
       territories.
1976 Condemns Israel for attacking Lebanese civilians.
1976 Condemns Israel for building settlements in the
       occupied territories.
1976 Calls for self determination for the
Palestinians.
1976 Afirms the rights of the Palestinians.
1978 Urges the permanent members (USA, USSR, UK,
France, China) to insure United Nations decisions on
the maintenance of international peace and security.
1978 Criticises the living conditions of the
       Palestinians.
1978 Condemns the Israeli human rights record in
       occupied territories.
1978 Calls for developed countries to increase the
       quantity and quality of development assistance 
       to underdeveloped countries.
1979 Calls for an end to all military and nuclear
       collaboration with the apartheid South Africa.
1979 Strengthens the arms embargo against South
Africa.
1979 Offers assistance to all the oppressed people of
       South Africa and their liberation movement.
1979 Concerns negotiations on disarmament and
cessation
       of the nuclear arms race.
1979 Calls for the return of all inhabitants expelled
       by Israel.
1979 Demands that Israel desist from human rights
       violations.
1979 Requests a report on the living conditions of
       Palestinians in occupied Arab countries.
1979 Offers assistance to the Palestinian people.
1979 Discusses sovereignty over national resources in
       occupied Arab territories.
1979 Calls for protection of developing counties'
       exports.
1979 Calls for alternative approaches within the
United
       Nations system for improving the enjoyment of 
       human rights and fundamental freedoms.
1979 Opposes support for intervention in the internal
       or external affairs ofstates.
1979 For a United Nations Conference on Women.
1979 To include Palestinian women in the United
Nations
       Conference on Women.
1979 Safeguards rights of developing countries in
       multinational trade negotiations.
1980 Requests Israel to return displaced persons.
1980 Condemns Israeli policy regarding the living
       conditions of the Palestinian people.
1980 Condemns Israeli human rights practices in 
     occupied territories. 3 resolutions.
1980 Afirms the right of self determination for the
       Palestinians.
1980 Offers assistance to the oppressed people of
South
       Africa and their national liberation movement.
1980 Attempts to establish a New International
Economic
       Order to promote the growth of underdeveloped
       countries and international economic co-
       operation.
1980 Endorses the Program of Action for Second Half of
       United Nations Decade for Women.
1980 Declaration of non-use of nuclear weapons against
       non-nuclear states.
1980 Emphasises that the development of nations and
       individuals is a human right.
1980 Calls for the cessation of all nuclear test
       explosions.
1980 Calls for the implementation of the Declaration
       on the Granting of Independence to Colonial
       Countries and Peoples.
1981 Promotes co-operative movements in developing
       countries.
1981 Affirms the right of every state to choose its
       economic and social system in accord with the
       will of its people, without outside
interference
       in whatever form it takes.
1981 Condemns activities of foreign economic interests
       in colonial territories.
1981 Calls for the cessation of all test explosions of
       nuclear weapons.
1981 Calls for action in support of measures to
prevent
       nuclear war, curb the arms race and promote
       disarmament.
1981 Urges negotiations on prohibition of chemical
       and biological weapons.
1981 Declares that education, work, health care,
       proper nourishment, national development, etc  
       are human rights.
1981 Condemns South Africa for attacks on neighbouring
       states, condemns apartheid and attempts to
       strengthen sanctions. 7 resolutions.
1981 Condemns an attempted coup by South Africa on the
       Seychelles.
1981 Condemns Israel's treatment of the Palestinians,
       human rights policies, and the bombing of Iraq.
       18 resolutions.
1982 Condemns the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
       6 resolutions (1982 to 1983).
1982 Condemns the shooting of 11 Muslims at a shrine
in
       Jerusalem by an Israeli soldier.
1982 Calls on Israel to withdraw from the Golan
Heights
       occupied in 1967.
1982 Condemns apartheid and calls for the cessation of
       economic aid to South Africa. 4 resolutions.
1982 Calls for the setting up of a World Charter for
       the protection of the ecology.
1982 Sets up a United Nations conference on succession
       of states in respect to state property,
archives
      and debts.
1982 Nuclear test bans and negotiations and nuclear
       free outer space. 3 resolutions.
1982 Supports a new world information and 
      communications order.
1982 Prohibition of chemical and bacteriological 
     weapons.
1982 Development of international law.
1982 Protects against products harmful to health and
       the environment .
1982 Declares that education, work, health care, 
      property nourishment, national development are 
      human rights.
1982 Protects against products harmful to health and
       the environment 
1982 Development of the energy resources of developing
       countries.
1983 Resolutions about apartheid, nuclear arms, 
      economics, and international law. 15
resolutions.
1984 Condemns support of South Africa in its Namibian 
     and other policies.
1984 International action to eliminate apartheid.
1984 Condemns Israel for occupying and attacking 
      southern Lebanon.
1984 Resolutions about apartheid, nuclear arms, 
      economics, and international law. 18
resolutions.
1985 Condemns Israel for occupying and attacking 
     southern Lebanon.
1985 Condemns Israel for using excessive force in the
       occupied territories.
1985 Resolutions about cooperation, human rights,
trade
       and development. 3 resolutions.
1985 Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and
       neo-Fascist activities .
1986 Calls on all governments (including the USA) to
       observe international law.
1986 Imposes economic and military sanctions against
       South Africa.
1986 Condemns Israel for its actions against Lebanese
       civilians.
1986 Calls on Israel to respect Muslim holy places.
1986 Condemns Israel for sky-jacking a Libyan
airliner.
1986 Resolutions about cooperation, security, human
      rights, trade, media bias, the environment and
       development. 8 resolutions.
1987 Calls on Israel to abide by the Geneva
Conventions
       in its treatment of the Palestinians.
1987 Calls on Israel to stop deporting Palestinians.
1987 Condemns Israel for its actions in Lebanon.
       2 resolutions.
1987 Calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from
       Lebanon.
1987 Cooperation between the United Nations and the
       League of Arab States.
1987 Calls for compliance in the International Court
       of Justice concerning military and paramilitary
       activities against Nicaragua and a call to end
      the trade embargo against Nicaragua.
      2 resolutions.
1987 Measures to prevent international terrorism,
study
       the underlying political and economic causes of
       terrorism, convene a conference to define  
       terrorism and to differentiate it from the 
       struggle of people from national liberation.
1987 Resolutions concerning journalism, international
       debt and trade. 3 resolutions.
1987 Opposition to the build up of weapons in space.
1987 Opposition to the development of new weapons of
       mass destruction.
1987 Opposition to nuclear testing. 2 resolutions.
1987 Proposal to set up South Atlantic "Zone of
Peace".
1988 Condemns Israeli practices against Palestinians
in
       the occupied territories. 5 resolutions (1988  
       and 1989).
1989 Condemns USA invasion of Panama.
1989 Condemns USA troops for ransacking the residence
       of the Nicaraguan ambassador in Panama.
1989 Condemns USA support for the Contra army in
       Nicaragua.
1989 Condemns illegal USA embargo of Nicaragua.
1989 Opposing the acquisition of territory by force.
1989 Calling for a resolution to the Arab-Israeli
       conflict based on earlier UN resolutions.
1990 To send three UN Security Council observers to
       the occupied territories.
1995 Afirms that land in East Jerusalem annexed by
       Israel is occupied territory.
1997 Calls on Israel to cease building settlements in
       East Jerusalem and other occupied territories.
       2 resolutions.
1999 Calls on the USA to end its trade embargo on
Cuba.
       8 resolutions (1992 to 1999).
2001 To send unarmed monitors to the West Bank and the
       Gaza Strip.
2001 To set up the International Criminal Court.
2002 To renew the peace keeping mission in Bosnia.



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