the manner, the mechanisms of action and double standards existing in the Security Council prevent it from performing its duties and assuming its responsibilities toward preserving international peace and security as required.
"Work mechanisms and double-standards on the Security Council prevent it from carrying out its duties and assuming its responsibilities in keeping world peace," the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement.
The word "veto" was not mentioned; but then, when President Bush speaks of America assuming its responsibilities with respect to Iraq, the word "war" is not usually mentioned, either.
In all other matters, Russia has been treated as the legal successor state to the Soviet Union, taking the Soviet seat on the United Nations Security Council and assuming its responsibilities in other treaties.
We are about to see the Middle East, as a huge contiguous field of violence and chaos, and it is upon the world to assume its responsibility and hasten to adopt an initiative that would allow the resumption of the democratic process.
"We became creditors not by choice but because the state finally assumed its responsibility for the death of our loved ones," Mrs. Gutiérrez said.
"The path is long and it may well be difficult to guarantee an orderly withdrawal," he said, as he called on the UK parliament to "assume its responsibility".
The group called on the Swiss Federal Council "to assume its responsibility and do everything in its power to ensure that a legal framework is created that nevertheless renders the implementation of the U.S. program possible".
"I hope that the federal government will assume its responsibility, especially with funding, which is the most important," he said.
Europe must fully assume its responsibility for achieving greater global economic stability.
