Germany joins the Security Council as a non-veto member in January and has strongly opposed war with Iraq.
Brazil and Turkey, non-veto-wielding members who have negotiated their own nuclear deal with Iran, voted against; Lebanon abstained.
The 15-nation Security Council takes on five new non-veto-bearing members today and bids farewell to five that are ending two-year terms.
In short, Trump can use the mechanics of the law to tie the hands of a recalcitrant bureaucracy while claiming deniability on diplomatic matters (just as the Obama administration said its non-veto of Security Council Resolution 2334 against Israel does not mean it supports the resolution).
The most sensible plan gives these four permanent but non-veto-wielding seats, with two other seats provided for Islamic countries and one for an African nation.America has yet to get behind these proposals, but a sharpened Security Council could mitigate the emerging world's objections to UN reform.
We know this because they repeatedly and emphatically rejected a monarchical absolute or non-override veto for the president.
Obama could simply say "no" to this: He could say he plans to veto any non-emergency proposals that increase the federal deficit.
Because while one may now transition while remaining married, the government has introduced the spousal veto, giving non-transitioning partners the right to say no to their other half obtaining a GRC.
One solution already used for the European banking union is for a double majority in which non-euro countries could veto decisions being taken by those inside the eurozone.
William Hague, Britain's foreign secretary, said: "I am appalled by Russia and China's decision to veto a non-political resolution to refer all those responsible for war-crimes and crimes against humanity, regardless of affiliation, to the ICC.
A treaty change could make such things easier, if it removed the right of non-participating countries to veto them.All this can be wrapped up in a day and a half.
