Pro-Israeli veto

Pro-Israeli veto:

1972     Condemns Israel for killing hundreds of people in Syria and Lebanon in air raids. (Retaliating for the Munich Olympics village attack on Israeli athletes by a Palestinian group)
1973     Affirms the rights of the Palestinians and calls on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.

1976

•     Condemns Israel for attacking Lebanese civilians.
•     Condemns Israel for building settlements in the occupied territories.
•     Calls for self determination for the Palestinians.
•     Affirms the rights of the Palestinians.

1978

•     Criticizes the living conditions of the Palestinians.
•     Condemns the Israeli human rights record in occupied territories.
•     Calls for the return of all inhabitants expelled by Israel.
•     Demands that Israel desist from human rights violations.
•     Requests a report on the living conditions of Palestinians in occupied Arab countries.
•     Offers assistance to the Palestinian people.
•     Discusses sovereignty over national resources in occupied Arab territories.
•     To include Palestinian women in the United Nations Conference on Women.

1980

•     Requests Israel to return displaced persons.
•     Condemns Israeli policy regarding the living conditions of the Palestinian people.
•     Condemns Israeli human rights practices in occupied territories.
•     Affirms the right of self determination for the Palestinians.
•     Condemns Israel for bombing Iraqi nuclear installations.
•     Condemns Israeli policy regarding living conditions of the Palestinian people.
•     To establish a nuclear weapon free zone in the Middle East.
•     To establish rights for the Palestinian people.
•     To clarify the status of Jerusalem.
•     Discusses Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.
•     Concerning the rights of displaced Palestinians to return to their homes.
•     Concerning revenues from Palestinian refugees’ properties.
•     Establishment of the University of Jerusalem for Palestinian refugees.
•     Concerning Israeli human rights violations in occupied territories.
•     Condemns Israel closing of universities in occupied territories.
•     Opposes Israel’s decision to build a canal linking the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.    Discusses sovereignty over national resources in occupied Palestine and other Arab territories.
•     Affirms the non-applicability of Israeli law over the Golan Heights.

1982     Condemns the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
1982     Condemns the shooting of 11 Muslims at a shrine in Jerusalem by an Israeli soldier.    Calls on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights occupied in 1967.

1984

• Condemns Israel for occupying and attacking southern Lebanon.
• Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States.
• Condemns Israeli attack against Iraqi nuclear installation.
• Affirms the rights of the Palestinian people.
• For the convening of a Middle East peace conference.
• Concerning Israeli human rights violations in occupied territories.
• Condemns assassination attempts against Palestinian mayors.
• Condemns Israel for failing to place its nuclear facilities under international safeguards.
• Proposing economic assistance to the Palestinian people.

1985

•     Condemns Israel for occupying and attacking southern Lebanon.
•     Condemns Israel for using excessive force in the occupied territories.

1986

•     Condemns Israel for its actions against Lebanese civilians.
•     Calls on Israel to respect Muslim holy places.
•     Condemns Israel for sky-jacking a Libyan airliner.

1987

•     Calls on Israel to abide by the Geneva Conventions in its treatment of the Palestinians.
•     Calls on Israel to stop deporting Palestinians.

1987

• Condemns Israel for its actions in Lebanon.
• Calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon.

1987     Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States.
1988     Condemns Israeli practices against Palestinians in the occupied territories.
1989     Calling for a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict based on earlier UN resolutions.
1990     To send three UN Security Council observers to the occupied territories.
1995     Affirms that land in East Jerusalem annexed by Israel is occupied territory.
1997     Calls on Israel to cease building settlements in East Jerusalem and other occupied territories.

2001

• To send unarmed monitors to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
• Condemns Israel for acts of terror against civilians in the occupied territories.

2002

• Condemns the killing of UK worker for the United Nations by Israeli forces.
• Condemns the destruction of the World Food Programe warehouse.

2003

• Condemns a decision by the Israeli parliament to “remove” the elected Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat.
• Condemns the building of a wall by Israel on Palestinian land.

2004     Condemns the assassination of Hamas leader, Sheik Ahmad Yassin.
2004     Condemns the Israeli incursion and killings in Gaza.
2006     Calls for an end to Israeli military incursions and attacks on Gaza.

2007

• Calls for the right of self determination for the Palestinian people.
• Other resolutions regarding the Palestinians and their rights.
• Calls for a nuclear free Central Asia and a nuclear free Southern Hemisphere.
• Prevention of proliferation in the Middle East (Vetoed to protect Israel’s nuclear arsenal)
• Affirms the sovereignty of Palestinians over the occupied territories and their resources.
• Affirms the right of the Palestinians to self determination.
• Calls on Israel to pay the cost of cleaning up an oil slick off the coast of Lebanon caused by its bombing.

2008     Resolutions concerning Palestine, its people, their property and Israeli practices in Palestine, including settlements.
2009     Calls for an end to the 22 day long Israeli attack on Gaza.
2011     Calls for a halt to the illegal Israeli West Bank settlements.

Other resolutions vetoed or opposed by the US:

1979

• For a United Nations Conference on Women
• Endorses the Program of Action for Second Half of United Nations Decade for Women.
• Declaration of non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.

1981

• Calls for the ending of all test explosions of nuclear weapons.
• Urges negotiations on prohibition of chemical and biological weapons.
• Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development, etc are human rights.
• Calls for the setting up of a World Charter for the protection of the ecology.
• Prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons.
• Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development are human rights.

1983

• Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development are human rights.
• Prohibition of manufacture of new weapons of mass destruction.
• Reversing the arms race.
• Prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons.
• Strengthening the United Nations

1984

• On the elimination of racial discrimination.
• Prohibition of new types of weapons of mass destruction.
• Prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons.

1985     Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities.

1986

• Calls on all governments (including the USA) to observe international law.
• Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers.
• Protection against products harmful to health and the environment

1987

• Measures to prevent international terrorism, study the underlying political and economic causes of terrorism, convene a conference to define terrorism and to differentiate it from the struggle of people from national liberation.
• Opposition to the build up of weapons in space.
• Opposition to the development of new weapons of mass destruction.
• Opposition to nuclear testing.

1989

• Condemns USA invasion of Panama.
• Condemns USA troops for ransacking the residence of the Nicaraguan ambassador in Panama.
• Condemns USA for shooting down 2 Libyan aircraft.
• Condemns USA support for the Contra army in Nicaragua.
• Condemns illegal USA embargo of Nicaragua.
• Opposing the acquisition of territory by force.

1999     Calls on the USA to end its trade embargo on Cuba. (8 resolutions)
2001     To set up the International Criminal Court.

2006

• Calls for a convention against female discrimination.
• Concerning the rights of children.

2007

• Concerning the right to food.
• On the applicability of the Geneva Convention to the protection of civilians in time of war.
• Banning the development of new weapons of mass destruction.
• Assuring non-nuclear states they will not be attacked or threatened with nuclear weapons.

2008

• Concerning the trade in illicit small arms.
• Calls for a comprehensive (nuclear) test ban treaty.
• Calls for a nuclear weapon free world.
• Calls for a right to food.
• Respect for the right to universal freedom of travel and the vital importance of family reunification.