MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — The United States stands to lose the most out of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) if the veto is abolished, a US anti-war and Democratic Party activist told Sputnik on Friday.
"Removing the power of one nation to veto measures on its own would impact the United States more than any other nation, other than perhaps Israel on whose behalf the United States issues many vetoes. In recent decades the United States has vetoed more than the other four combined," David Swanson said.
Many argue that the seventy-year-old UN is in need of reform to enable it to more effectively respond to the shifting balance of world power.
Swanson, who co-founded the WarIsACrime.org website and is the Washington director of the Democrats.com online community, suggested that removing veto right from all five nations equally would be "a step toward democratizing the United Nations."
Russian UN envoy Vitaly Churkin stated that Moscow saw a political subtext in calls by representatives of some Western countries, as well as Ukraine, to abolish the use of veto in the UNSC.
