In a city known for its private members clubs battling for exclusivity, one gilded room in Manhattan reigns supreme: a powerful club of countries within the United Nations headquarters that has resisted adding a new member for nearly eight decades.
The UN Security Council has been dominated by just five countries since its inception from the ashes of World War II, when much of the world was still under colonial rule. Today, countries around the world get to take turns in the council as non-permanent members, but no country in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America or the Caribbean has the permanent members’ crucial veto power.
“US and Russia often exercise their veto to either protect a client state, in the case of Israel or Syria, or to protect their own national interests, as in the case with Russia vetoing on Ukraine,” Anjali Dayal, a UN expert and an international politics assistant professor at Fordham University, told CNN. France and the United Kingdom have limited their use of veto power since 1989.
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