Salah’s Blog

In class, we had a group assignment which was to pick a question that concerns the United Nations and for homework answer it. My group question was “should the five permanent members of the security council continue to retain their veto power? Why or why not?”

  It seems that at this very moment the five permanent members of the Security council are: the US, UK, Russia, China, and France. The very thing that makes the permanent members so strong, is their veto power. Now I do not think that the very members should actually continue to keep hold of their veto power, because say for example the many people of the world vote not to declare war against Iraq, and one of the permanent members of the Security Council says that it is a must to have war. Since that one country says yes, all the desicions of the world’s people is then ingulfed by the immense statement of what that one country said. To me that is not fair for what all the people of the world declared, and to think about it, it does not make sense to make a final desicion on something based on what one the countrys of the permanent members said. So it is absolutely sure that the members of the Security Council should not continue to retain their immense “veto” power.