How does the Vaitcan's Holy See's votes influece the United Nations?

Question

How does the Vaitcan's Holy See's votes influece the United Nations?

Answer 1

The answer is: none.

The Vatican is not a member nation to the UN.

But this trully doesn't matter: The vatican has a power of world influence probably greater than that of the UN. The last ones to disregard this were the Communists, when Brezhnev at the time John Paul II visited Poland, He was told to be careful of the pope going to Poland and of the Pope, etc...Brezhev repllied: 'How many divisons does the Pope have? And look, later they considered him so dangerous to their cause that they had to send Ali Agca, a turk, to kill him right in St Peter's square, this in its turn catalized the whole movement that ended up with the disolution of the USSR, of course that not the vatican alone, but now we know that the Vatican and the CIA worked together. This is just an example.

Answer 2

The Vatican makes detailed, highly-public attacks on any plans by UN member countries that would result in women knowing all of their reproductive health options, and would educate people about condom use to prevent the spread of HIV. They lobby hard with the leadership of primarily Catholic countries to promote their religious agenda. They lobbied countries and the press against the priorities of the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing back in 1995, even working to exclude some women's groups who oppose Vatican politics from participating.

Peter Piot, head of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), voiced the international community’s continuing distress over the Catholic church’s policy on condoms in 2001: "When priests preach against using contraception, they are committing a serious mistake which is costing human lives."

It has no voting status at the UN -- so it uses political pressure to get its way.

"The Vatican has only observer status at the United Nations, but it claims to speak for millions of Roman Catholics worldwide and its positions carry moral and political weight at conferences like the one in Beijing as countries search for the broadest possible consensus."

-- New York Times article from August 1995

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht...

Answer 3

Very little...

however, the Pope has a much wider influence.

Former USSR head of state Mikhail Gorbachev wrote years ago in an editorial that communism would not have fallen in the former Soviet Union without the Pope's influence...

Biggest influence in the UN are the permanent Security Council members-- U.S., Russia, China, France, and United Kingdom