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=== News Update ===
U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel
(1972-2006)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html
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Vetoes: 1972-1982
Subject
Date & Meeting
US Rep Casting
Veto
Vote
Palestine: Syrian-
Lebanese
Complaint. 3 power
draft resolution
2/10784
9/10/1972
Bush
13-1, 1
Palestine:
Examination of
Middle East
Situation. 8-power
draft resolution
(S/10974)
7/2/1973
Scali
13-1, 0 (China not
partic.)
Palestine:
Egyptian-Lebanese
Complaint. 5-power
draft power
resolution
(S/11898)
12/8/1975
Moynihan
13-1, 1
Palestine: Middle
East Problem,
including
Palestinian
question. 6-power
draft resolution
(S/11940)
1/26/1976
Moynihan
9-1,3 (China &
Libya not
partic.)
Palestine:
Situation in
Occupied Arab
Territories. 5-
power draft
resolution
(S/12022)
3/25/1976
Scranton
14-1,0
Palestine: Report
on Committee on
Rights of
Palestinian
People. 4-power
draft resolution
(S/121119)
6/29/1976
Sherer
10-1,4
Palestine:
Palestinian
Rights. Tunisian
draft resolution.
(S/13911)
4/30/1980
McHenry
10-1,4
Palestine: Golan
Heights. Jordan
draft resolution.
(S/14832/Rev. 2)
1/20/1982
Kirkpatrick
9-1,5
Palestine:
Situation in
Occupied
Territories,
Jordan draft
resolution
(S/14943)
4/2/1982
Lichenstein
13-1,1
Palestine:
Incident at the
Dome of the Rock
in Jerusalem. 4-
power draft
resolution
4/20/1982
Kirpatrick
14-1, 0
Palestine:
Conflict in
Lebanon. Spain
draft resolution.
(S/15185)
6/8/1982
Kirpatrick
14-1,0
Palestine:
Conflict in
Lebanon. France
draft resolution.
(S/15255/Rev. 2)
6/26/1982
Lichenstein
14-1
Palestine:
Conflict in
Lebanon. USSR
draft resolution.
(S/15347/Rev. 1,
as orally
amended)
8/6/1982
Lichenstein
11-1,3
Palestine:
Situation in
Occupied
Territories, 20-
power draft
resolution
(S/15895)
8/2/1983
Lichenstein
13-1,1
Security Council Vetoes/Negative voting 1983-present
Subject
Date
Vote
Occupied Arab
Territories: Wholesale
condemnation of Israeli
settlement policies -
not adopted
1983
S. Lebanon: Condemns
Israeli action in
southern Lebanon.
S/16732
9/6/1984
Vetoed: 13-1 (U.S.),
with 1 abstention (UK)
Occupied Territories:
Deplores "repressive
measures" by Israel
against Arab population.
S/19459.
9/13/1985
Vetoed: 10-1 (U.S.),
with 4 abstentions
(Australia, Denmark, UK,
France)
Lebanon: Condemns
Israeli practices
against civilians in
southern Lebanon.
S/17000.
3/12/1985
Vetoed: 11-1 (U.S.),
with 3 abstentions
(Australia, Denmark,
UK)
Occupied Territories:
Calls upon Israel to
respect Muslim holy
places. S/17769/Rev. 1
1/30/1986
Vetoed: 13-1 (US), with
one abstention
(Thailand)
Lebanon: Condemns
Israeli practices
against civilians in
southern Lebanon.
S/17730/Rev. 2.
1/17/1986
Vetoed: 11-1 (U.S.),
with 3 abstentions
(Australia, Denmark,
UK)
Libya/Israel: Condemns
Israeli interception of
Libyan plane.
S/17796/Rev. 1.
2/6/1986
Vetoed: 10 -1 (US), with
4 abstentions
(Australia, Denmark,
France, UK)
Lebanon: Draft strongly
deplored repeated
Israeli attacks against
Lebanese territory and
other measures and
practices against the
civilian population;
(S/19434)
1/18/1988
vetoed 13-1 (US), with 1
abstention (UK)
Lebanon: Draft condemned
recent invasion by
Israeli forces of
Southern Lebanon and
repeated a call for the
immediate withdrawal of
all Israeli forces from
Lebanese territory;
(S/19868)
5/10/1988
vetoed 14-1 (US)
Lebanon: Draft strongly
deplored the recent
Israeli attack against
Lebanese territory on 9
December 1988;
(S/20322)
12/14/1988
vetoed 14-1 (US)
Occupied territories:
Draft called on Israel
to accept de jure
applicability of the 4th
Geneva Convention;
(S/19466)
1988
vetoed 14-1 (US)
Occupied territories:
Draft urged Israel to
abide by the Fourth
Geneva Convention,
rescind the order to
deport Palestinian
civilians, and condemned
policies and practices
of Israel that violate
the human rights of the
Palestinian people in
the occupied
territories; (S/19780)
1988
vetoed 14-1 (US)
Occupied territories:
Strongly deplored
Israeli policies and
practices in the
occupied territories,
and strongly deplored
also Israel's continued
disregard of relevant
Security Council
decisions.
2/17/1989
Vetoed 14-1 (US)
Occupied territories:
Condemned Israeli
policies and practices
in the occupied
territories.
6/9/1989
Vetoed 14-1 (US)
Occupied territories:
Deplored Israel's
policies and practices
in the occupied
territories.
11/7/1989
Vetoed 14-1 (US)
Occupied territories:
NAM draft resolution to
create a commission and
send three security
council members to
Rishon Lezion, where an
Israeli gunmen shot down
seven Palestinian
workers.
5/31/1990
Vetoed 14-1 (US)
Middle East: Confirms
that the expropriation
of land by Israel in
East Jerusalem is
invalid and in violation
of relevant Security
Council resolutions and
provisions of the Fourth
Geneva convention;
expresses support of
peace process, including
the Declaration of
Principles of 9/13/1993
5/17/1995
Vetoed 14-1 (US)
Middle East: Calls upon
Israeli authorities to
refrain from all actions
or measures, including
settlement activities.
3/7/1997
Vetoed 14-1 (US)
Middle East: Demands
that Israel cease
construction of the
settlement in east
Jerusalem (called Jabal
Abu Ghneim by the
Palestinians and Har
Homa by Israel), as well
as all the other Israeli
settlement activity in
the occupied
territories
3/21/1997
Vetoed 13-1,1 (US)
Call for UN Observers
Force in West Bank, Gaza
3/27/2001
Vetoed 9-1 (US),
with four abstentions
(Britain, France,
Ireland and Norway)
Condemned acts of
terror, demanded an end
to violence and the
establishment of a
monitoring mechanism to
bring in observers.
12/14/2001
Vetoed 12-1 (US)
with two abstentions
(Britain and Norway)
On the killing by
Israeli forces of
several UN employees and
the destruction of the
World Food Programme
(WFP) warehouse
12/19/2002
12-1 (US)
with two abstentions
(Bulgaria and Cameroon)
Demand that Israel halt
threats to expel
Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat
9/16/03
Vetoed 11-1 (US)
with three abstentions
(Britain, Germany and
Bulgaria)
Seeks to bar Israel from
extending security fence
10/14/03
Vetoed 10-1 with four
absentations (Britain,
Germany, Bulgaria and
Cameroon)
Condemns Israel for
killing Ahmed Yassin
3/25/04
Vetoed 11-1 (US)
with three absentations
(Britain, Germany,
Romania)
Calls For Israel To Halt
Gaza Operation
10/05/04
Vetoed 11-1 (US)
with three absentations
(Britain, Germany,
Romania)
Calls For Israel To Halt
Gaza Operation
7/13/06
Vetoed 10-1 (US)
with four absentations
(Britain, Peru, Denmark
and Slovakia)
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Source: U.S. State Department; UN, various news sources
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