It is one government, one vote (at least the General Assembly is). The United States government is not the United States, though it's probably closer than, say, the Saudi Arabian government is to representing the people who live on that part of the Arabian peninsula.
Actually, the Soviet Union used to have 3 votes in the General Assembly. When the UN was being formed, Stalin said that each of the 15 Republics that made up the Soviet Union should get a vote. In a compromise, the Soviet Union got one vote, and so did the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic. They always voted the same.
No one in the American government in at least the last forty years has tried to get more than one vote for the US. However, no one has suggested giving up the US veto in the Security Council. And a number of times, the US government has withheld money the UN wanted.
The UN is not one country, one vote.
Actually, the Soviet Union used to have 3 votes in the General Assembly. When the UN was being formed, Stalin said that each of the 15 Republics that made up the Soviet Union should get a vote. In a compromise, the Soviet Union got one vote, and so did the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic. They always voted the same.
No one in the American government in at least the last forty years has tried to get more than one vote for the US. However, no one has suggested giving up the US veto in the Security Council. And a number of times, the US government has withheld money the UN wanted.
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