Q. With reference to United Nations, the decision that major countries should have veto power, was taken at which of the following conferences?
Solution:
The Dumbarton Oaks Conference or more formally, the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization was an international conference at which the United Nations was formulated and negotiated among international leaders. The conference was held at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C., from August 21, 1944, to October 7, 1944. Two issues were central in the conference’s proceedings: The first issue was about the position that the Soviet Union would have within the emergent organisation, as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s original idea was designed to encompass American global power. The second concerned the veto powers of the permanent members of the Security Council. “Stalin dropped opposition to the American version of the veto with a wave of his hand, dismissing it as an insignificant matter.
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