An Updated List of Vetoes Cast by the US

By Donald Neff

Washington Report, May/June 2005, page 14 Special Report

http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May-June_2005/0505014.html

Prior to the Nixon administration, the United States had never

employed its veto power in the U.N. Security Council. It was

first used March 17, 1970 over Southern Rhodesia. The second

U.S. veto came two years later, when Washington sought to

protect Israel from a resolution condemning Israel for one of

its attacks on its neighbors. Since then, the United States has

cast its veto a total of 39 times to shield Israel from Security

Council draft resolutions that condemned, deplored,

denounced, demanded, affirmed, endorsed, called on and

urged Israel to obey the world body.

1. 

Sept 10, 1972

to Shield Israel from Criticism by the

UN Security Council

Southern Lebanon and Syria; vote: 13 to 1, with 1

abstention.

2. 

July 26, 1973

people to self-determination, statehood and equal

protections; vote: 13 to 1, with China absent.

3. 

Dec 8, 1975

attacks in Southern Lebanon and its murder of

innocent civilians; vote: 13 to 1, with 1 abstention.

4. 

Jan 26, 1976

Palestinian people; vote:9 to 1, with 3 abstentions.

5. 

March 25, 1976

status of Jerusalem, which is recognized as an

international city, by most world nations and the

United Nation’s; vote: 14 to 1.

6. 

June 29, 1976

Palestinian people; vote: 10 to 1, with 4 abstentions.

7. 

April 30, 1980

Palestinian people vote: 10 to 1, with 4 abstentions.

8. 

Jan. 20, 1982

the Golan Heights; vote: 9 to 1, with 4 abstentions.

9. 

April 2, 1982

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza

Strip and its refusal to abide by the Geneva

Convention protocols of civilized nations; vote: 14 to 1.

10. 

April 20, 1982

shot 11 Muslim worshippers on the Temple Mount of

the Haram al-Sharaf near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the

Old City of Jerusalem; vote: 14 to 1.

11. 

June 8, 1982

not withdraw from its invasion of Lebanon; vote: 14 to 1.

12. 

June 26, 1982

not withdraw from its invasion of Beirut, Lebanon;

vote: 14 to 1.

13. A

ug 6, 1982

if it refused to withdraw from its occupation of

Lebanon; vote: 11 to 1, with 3 abstentions.

14. 

Aug 2, 1983

settlements in occupied Palestine territories of West

Bank and Gaza Strip, denouncing them as an

obstacle to peace; vote: 13 to 1, with 1 abstention.

15. 

Sept 6, 1984

Arabs in Lebanon and urged its withdrawal; vote: 14 to 1.

16. 

March 12, 1985

Southern Lebanon and denounced Israel’s “Iron Fist”

policy of repression; vote: 11 to 1, with 3 abstentions.

17. 

Sept 13, 1985

- Denounced Israel’s violation of human rights in the occupied territories;

18. 

Jan 17, 1986

- Deplored Israel’s violence in Southern Lebanon;

19. 

Jan 30, 1986

Arab East Jerusalem which threaten the sanctity of

Muslim holy sites; vote: 13 to 1, with 1 abstention.

20. 

Feb 6, 1986

- Condemned Israel’s hijacking of a Libyan passenger airplane on Feb. 4;

21. 

Jan 18, 1988

Lebanon and its measures and practices against the

civilian population of Lebanon;

vote: 13 to 1, with Britain abstaining.

22. 

Feb 1, 1988

against the Palestinian uprising that violate the rights

of occupied Palestinians, abide by the Fourth

Geneva Convention and formalize a leading role for

the United Nations in future peace negotiations;

vote: 14 to 1.

23. 

April 15, 1988

Palestinians, condemned Israel’s shooting of civilians,

called on Israel to uphold the Fourth Geneva

Convention and called for a peace settlement

under U.N. auspices; vote: 14 to 1.

24. 

May 10, 1988

into Lebanon; vote: 14to 1.

25. 

Dec 14, 1988

raids on Lebanon; vote: 14 to 1.

26. 

Feb. 17, 1989

Palestinian uprising and called on Israel to respect

the human rights of the Palestinians; vote: 14 to 1.

27. 

June 9, 1989

rights of the Palestinians; vote: 14 to 1.

28. 

Nov 7, 1989

confiscated from Palestinians during a tax protest

and allow a fact-finding mission to observe Israel’s

crackdown on the Palestinian uprising; vote: 14 to 1.

29. 

May 31, 1990

abuses against Palestinians in Israeli-occupied lands;

vote: 14 to 1.

30. 

May 17, 1995

of land in East Jerusalem and in violation of Security

Council resolutions and the Fourth Geneva

convention; vote: 14 to 1.

31. 

March 7, 1997

settlement activity and all other actions in the

occupied territories; vote:14 to 1.

32. 

March 21, 1997

construction of the settlement Har Homa (called

Jabal Abu Ghneim by the Palestinians) in East

Jerusalem and cease all other settlement activity in

the occupied territories; vote: 13 to 1, with one

abstention.

33. 

March 26, 2001

observer force in the West Bank and Gaza;

vote: 9 to 1, with 4 abstentions.

34. 

Dec 14, 2001

encouraged establishment of a monitoring apparatus;

vote: 12-1, with 2 abstentions.

35. 

Dec 19, 2002

killing of U.N. employees and Israel’s destruction of

the U.N. World Food Program warehouse in Beit

Lahiya and demanded that Israel refrain from the

excessive and disproportionate use of force in the

occupied territories;

vote: 12 to 1, with 2 abstentions.

36. 

Sept 16, 2003

concern about the possible deportation of Yasser Arafat;

vote: 11 to 1, with 3 abstentions.

37. 

Oct 14, 2003

- Raised concerns about Israel’s building of a security fence through the occupied West Bank;

38. 

March 25, 2004

- Condemned Israel for killing Palestinian spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin

vote: 11 to 1, with 3 abstentions.

39. 

Oct 5, 2004

damage to property;

vote: 11 to 1, with 3 abstentions.