Stop Using the Veto in Desperate Cases, Mozambique Pleads to the P5 Security Council Members : Damilola Banjo / PassBlue

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"“Veto should have never been allowed in cases of flagrant violation of international humanitarian law as we are witnessing in Gaza at this moment,” Comissário said. Mozambique is “not powerful enough in the world to override the veto, to say you cannot apply a veto because people are dying; 70 percent of those people are children and women and there is unwarranted destruction of civilian infrastructures. We cannot say stop, the United Nations cannot say stop. We are in a very unfair, unjust and imperfect world.”

Ambassador Pedro Comissário of Mozambique

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"A total of 312 vetoes have been cast in the Council since 1945; 253 of them swatted down matters of global peace and security — the main work of the body. The former USSR/Russia has used the veto 152 times, followed by the US with 91. Since October 2023, the US, Russia and China have cast vetoes to block resolutions that could have provided immediate solutions to the incessant suffering of innocent people in Gaza. As of May 1, 34, 568 people have been killed in the Palestinian enclave since the Israeli-Hamas war started on Oct. 7.