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**UN Security Council**  The United Kingdom has a permanent seat in the UNSC, and then also veto power in the UN. UK has used this power, along with France, in 1956 when they not wantet to acept a draft resolution to solve the Suez Crisis in 1956. They later established the United Nations Emergency Force I tougehter with the US. The UK has used the veto power seven times because of Rhodesia. As the UK no longer can be consider as a superpower, I think the permanent seat should be withdrawed and given to someone else, for expample EU .media type="custom" key="9111998" align="right"