Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad delivering his statement at the General Debate of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York September 28, 2019. — Bernama pic
“The key message of this theme is ‘galvanising multilateral efforts’, which is what the United Nations stands for. “The veto power — they must know — was against all the principles of human rights which they themselves claim to be the champions. It ensured that all solution to all conflicts could be negated by any one of them. Broken up into ideological factions they frustrated all attempts at solving problems.
He added the time has come for the veto power to be modified if it cannot be done away with completely.
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