UN Violations

One US excuse for waging war against Iraq is their scorn for UNSC Resolutions. Yet, this analysis shows that many countries are in violation of UNSC Resolutions as well. Are we going to invade Turkey or Israel? Is this a good reason to invade a country?

United Nations Security Council Resolutions Currently Being Violated by Countries Other than Iraq

This list deals exclusively with resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, a fifteen-member body consisting of five permanent members (the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom) and ten non-permanent members elected for rotating two-year terms representing various regions of the world. The Security Council's primary responsibility, under the UN Charter, is for the maintenance of international peace and security. For a resolution to pass, it must be approved by a majority of the total membership with no dissenting vote from any of the five permanent members. Since the early 1970s, the United States has used its veto power nearly fifty times, more than all other permanent members during that same period combined. In the vast majority of these cases, the U.S. was the only dissenting vote. The preceding list, therefore, includes only resolutions where the United States voted in the affirmative or abstained.