Editing Nicaragua v. United States (section)

== UN voting ==
After five vetoes in the Security Council between 1982 and 1985 of resolutions concerning the situation in Nicaragua,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/membship/veto/vetosubj.htm |title=Subjects of UN Security Council Vetoes |access-date=September 19, 2007 |archive-date=March 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317010910/http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/membship/veto/vetosubj.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> the United States made one final veto on 28 October 1986<ref name="UN_SPV2718_page40">{{UN document |docid=S-PV.2718 |type=Verbatim Report |body=Security Council |meeting=2718 |page=40 |accessdate=2007-09-19|date=28 October 1986}}</ref> (France, Thailand, and United Kingdom abstaining) of a resolution calling for full and immediate compliance with the judgment.<ref name="UN_S18428">{{UN document |docid=S-18428 |type=Document| body=Security Council| date=28 October 1986 |accessdate=2007-09-19}}</ref>

Nicaragua brought the matter to the U.N. Security Council, where the United States vetoed a resolution (11 to 1, 3 abstentions) calling on all states to observe international law. Nicaragua also turned to the General Assembly, which passed a resolution 94 to 3 calling for compliance with the World Court ruling. Two states, Israel and El Salvador, joined the United States in opposition. At that time, El Salvador was receiving substantial funding and military advice from the U.S., which was aiming to crush a Sandinista-like revolutionary movement by the [[FMLN]]. At the same session, Nicaragua called upon the U.N. to send an independent fact-finding mission to the border to secure international monitoring of the borders after a conflict there; the proposal was rejected by Honduras with U.S. backing. A year later, on November 12, 1987, the General Assembly again called for "full and immediate compliance" with the World Court decision. This time only Israel joined the United States in opposing adherence to the ruling.<ref name="UN_ARES4131">{{UN document |docid=A-RES-41-31 |type=Resolution |body=General Assembly |session=41 |resolution_number=31 |accessdate=2007-09-19|date=3 November 1986}}</ref><ref name="Necessary Illusions ">{{cite book | author=Noam Chomsky | title=Necessary Illusions, Adjuncts of Government| publisher= New York: Oxford University Press | year= 1989 | chapter=4}}</ref>