Vatican City - Pressure by powerful countries on weaker states at the UN Security Council distorts the decision-making process, a senior Vatican official said in an Italian newspaper published on Thursday.
"When promises or threats are made concerning the future of a people, the decision-making process is distorted," Monsignor Renato Martino told the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Martino, a former Permanent Observer of The Holy See at the United Nations and head of the Vatican's justice and peace council, said it was not fair for big countries to exert more pressure on smaller countries than they were reasonably able to resist.
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"Each voting member (of the Council) must be free from all interference," he told the paper.
Veto-wielding Security Council members, deeply split over the issue of whether to go war against Iraq, have recently been engaged in a frenzied campaign to rally the 10 smaller countries with a vote to their cause.
"It is unacceptable that the workings of the United Nations should become the victim of the logic of power," Martino said. - Sapa-AFP
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