International Law in Brief
UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution on Vetoes
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By: Kehinde Winful | April 29, 2022 - 1:03pm
On April 27, 2022, The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution (to be posted once published at: https://www.un.org/en/ga/76/resolutions.shtml) that requires the General Assembly to meet every time a veto is used by the Security Council. Speaking on the resolution at the Assembly’s meeting, Ambassador Christian Wenaweser stated, “[t]he draft resolution before the Assembly today creates a standing mandate for the Assembly to be convened automatically, within ten working days, every time a veto has been cast in the Security Council.” The resolution is said to be an expression of a “commitment to multilateralism with [The United Nations General Assembly] and its principal organs at the forefront.”