UN raises bar for using Security Council veto

Liechtenstein's Ambassador to the United Nations Christian Wenaweser speaks to the the 193-member UN General Assembly before the Assembly adopted a draft resolution requiring the body to meet within two weeks of a veto being cast in the 15-member UN Security Council at UN headquarters in New York, US, April 26, 2022. © Mike Segar, Reuters

The 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus Tuesday a resolution requiring the five permanent members of the Security Council to justify their use of the veto.

The push for reform, which was greeted with applause in the chamber, was revived by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.