1、IntroductionGood morning! Ladies and Gentlemen! My name is Scotfield, and these three are my teammates: Danica, Joanna and David. Its our pleasure to be here today and give you this group presentation. But, before the presentation, I want to show you a short piece of video! This video is about a sce
2、ne of terrorist attack in Syria. And as you can see from the video, the international situation is pretty turbulent. There exist a lot of problems all over the world! It is really necessary to establish an international organization to deal with these problems. And the United Nations is the most imp
3、ortant organization which aims to handle international affairs. In the UN, the UN Security Council is the most important department that aims to maintain world peace and security. Recently, in the UN Security Council meeting, China and Russia both gave a negative vote to a draft resolution about Syr
4、ias Problem, and this draft wasnt passed. Actually, if only one of the two countries gives a negative vote, this draft resolution wont be passed either. So, why? Well, this is related to a very important political item and which is also our group presentation topic today:” the power of veto in the U
5、N Security Council”. So, any of you heard this phrase before, please put up your hands. OK, fine! Does anyone know what it means? I think actually you can guess what it means from every single word of this phrase. Veto equals forbid or ban, and power equals right. So, the veto power means that every
6、 permanent country in the UN Security Council (Including: America, Russia, China, the UK and France) has the right to give a negative vote to a draft resolution in the UN Security Council meeting, and it wont be passed in that case. So, it is a kind of absolute vote power! Basically, we will divide
7、our presentation into three parts. Danica will introduce the origin of veto power to you in the first part. And in the second part, Joanna will talk about the positive functions it has performed in the history. After that, David will focus on the negative impacts in the final part. Now, lets welcome
8、 Danica to present the first part for us.Conclusion:According to what we present above, we can know that the veto power has both positive and negative impacts. It has a pretty dramatic origin. It once maintained world peace in the Cold War, and it also damages many weak countries benefits and become
9、 a power tool of big counties in the world. So, it has caused really heated discussions all over the world. And I want to listen to your opinions now. So, do you think its fair that the five big countries to determine other countries fates with the veto power in their hands? Whether we need the veto
10、 power today? Should we change the rule of voting in the UN Security Council and if we should, how? There are many questions that need to be considered. Maybe we can try to give some suggestions to make it better and more reasonable; we can try to improve it. For example, there can be some rules tha
11、t limit the using times in a time period, like three times limitation per year per country. Of course, this is just an assumption. But, I believe that compared to using the veto power, the big countries should have more communication and understanding, after all, the United Nations was founded to maintain world peace and guarantee human rights! This is the end of our presentation, and I hope youve enjoyed it today! Now, does anyone have any questions? If there are no more questions, Ill stop here. Thanks very much for your attention!
