<Li> December 23, 1989: France, the United Kingdom and the United States vetoed a draft resolution condemning the United States invasion of Panama . </Li> <P> Between 1946 and 1971, the Chinese seat on the Security Council was the government of the Republic of China (which retreated to Taiwan in 1949) during which its representative used the veto only once to block Mongolia's application for membership in 1955 because the ROC considered the country to be a part of China . This postponed the admission of Mongolia until 1961, when the Soviet Union announced that unless Mongolia was admitted, it would block the admission of all of the newly independent African states . Faced with this pressure, the ROC relented under protest . </P> <P> After the Republic of China's expulsion from the United Nations in 1971, the first veto cast by the present occupant, the People's Republic of China, was issued on 25 August 1972 over Bangladesh's admission to the United Nations . As of February 2017, the People's Republic of China has used its veto eleven times . Observers have noted a preference for China to abstain rather than veto on resolutions not directly related to Chinese interests . </P> <P> In the early days of the United Nations, the Soviet Union commissar and later minister for foreign affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov, vetoed resolutions so many times that he was known as "Mr. Veto". In fact, the Soviet Union was responsible for nearly half of all vetoes ever cast--79 vetoes were used in the first 10 years . Molotov regularly rejected bids for new membership because of the US's refusal to admit all of the Soviet republics . Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia used its veto power sparingly . However, its use of the veto increased in the late 2000s and 2010s, due to a number of resolutions on conflicts which it was involved militarily in including in Georgia, Syria and Ukraine, making it the state which has most frequently used its veto since the dissolution of the Soviet Union . </P>

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