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The UN Security Council has five permanent members. What can each of them do?

In the exam (Danish)

FN's Sikkerhedsråd har fem faste medlemmer. Hvad kan hvert af dem gøre?

  1. aStop a decision with a vetoStoppe en beslutning med et vetoCorrect answer
  2. bDecide which countries may vote in the General AssemblyBestemme, hvilke lande der må stemme i Generalforsamlingen
  3. cChange the UN's rules without asking the other countriesÆndre FN's regler uden at spørge de andre lande

Why?

The five permanent members have a right of veto. If even one of them votes against, the Security Council cannot adopt the decision.

Translated with AI. In the exam the question is in Danish, as shown above.

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Source

Questions from past citizenship tests (danskogproever.dk), reproduced verbatim in Danish with the official answers by permission of the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), and our own practice questions on the facts of the study material “Læremateriale til Indfødsretsprøven” and on Danish values. The English translation and the explanations are ours, made with AI help; in the test the questions are asked in Danish. Current-affairs questions and questions whose official answer no longer holds have been left out. We are not affiliated with SIRI.

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