Vyacheslav Molotov was insisting that members of the UN Security Council—a group formed of delegations from the world’s most powerful nations—should have a veto privilege. What that meant, according to the Russian definition, was the ability of a Security Council nation to veto any action of which the rest of the Security Council nations approved. According to the Russian definition, the veto would allow one nation to block a matter from even being discussed by the Security Council. The Americans found this position indefensible.
