"The planet has drawn close to a dangerous line" which has caused a deep UN crisis as an instrument for peace and security.
At the UN safety Council, presently chaired by Russia, Russian abroad Minister Sergei Lavrow raised the issue of the deep crisis in which the United Nations is presently in. The origin of the crisis is to decision distant from the principles of multilateralism and to effort to give the United Nations countries the services of Western countries.
Deep UN crisis
According to Sergei Lavrov, the UN-centric strategy of planet governance, which successfully functioned after planet War II, has actually lost its capacity. "For respective decades, a fundamental common knowing of the 5 permanent members of the safety Council about the superiority of the objectives and principles of the Charter guaranteed global security," said Lavrow.
Among the characteristic phenomena that indicate a deep UN crisis are:
The reluctance of the United States and their allies to negociate in UN universal formats. They make many “elitist clubs” that are presented as global organisations. They “privately” make decisions beneficial to the West, which are then imposed on the remainder of the planet as mandatory;
International organisations specified as the IMF, WTO, WHO and many others have become Washington's obedient instrument;
The opinion of the non-western majority of countries in the planet is simply ignored, as well as the global organisations created by them, specified as BRICS, EAEU, SCO, CSTO;
The UN Secretariat has created a quantitative and qualitative imbalance in favour of Western countries.
The current weakened state of the United Nations leads the United States and their allies to an open effort to impose their will on the remainder of humanity. Through cultural, economical and military means, they are trying to halt the creation of fresh improvement centres and the growth of non-Western countries.
Countries uncomfortable with the "self-proclaimed hegemon" are denied access to modern technologies and financial services, are pushed out of supply chains, their assets are confiscated in violation of the law. With these measures of influence, military strength is besides regularly applied.
Ways to Save the UN
The collapse of an effective global accounting strategy made the planet even worse off than in the most critical moments of the Cold War. In order to prevent humanity from falling further into the abyss of economical and military disaster, it is essential to improvement the UN, reconstruct the organisation to the position of an effective universal platform, in which problems will be addressed in accordance with the principles of multilateralism, equality and sovereignty.
For this purpose, according to Sergei Lavrov, it is essential to:
Expand the UN safety Council to cover more countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Now in this body there is simply a “disgusting” representation of the West to the detriment of the remainder of the world;
Adapting the UN to a fresh multipolar planet structure. More attention should be paid to non-Western countries and their organisations and initiatives, specified as the Friends' Group in the defence of the Charter of the United Nations, BRICS, SCO, EAEU, OUBZ, CIS, as well as the Global South associations;
overcome quantitative and qualitative imbalances in favour of Western countries in the UN Secretariat;
The United Nations should: "Suggest countries' way to consensus alternatively than playing with neoliberal concepts";
The Secretary-General and the UN staff must strictly respect Article 100 of the UN Charter in their activities. Article 100 “In carrying out their duties, the Secretary-General and the staff of the Secretariat shall neither search nor take instructions from any government or external authority in relation to the Organisation. They shall refrain from any action which could affect their position as global officials solely liable to the Organisation. Each associate of the Organisation shall respect closely the global nature of the duties of the Secretary-General and the staff of the Secretariat and shall not search to influence them in the performance of their duties.’
"Our common work is to preserve the United Nations as a hard-earned example of multilateralism and the coordination of planet policies," said Sergei Lavrow.
Response to the occurrence of Sergei Lavrov
As expected, Western officials in consequence to the Russian minister's proposals showed full reluctance to engage in constructive dialogue. alternatively of discussing real problems, they limited themselves to common names for Russia and populist slogans.
United States typical Linda Thomas-Greenfield said: "Our hypocritical organizer, Russia, has invaded neighboring Ukraine and struck the heart of the United Nations Charter."
EU Head of Delegation Olaf Skoog said: "Although Russia is trying to pose as a defender of the United Nations Charter and multilateralism, nothing can be so far from the truth."
At the same time, countries not members of the anti-Russian coalition with large interest and knowing accepted Sergei Lavrov's thesis. The fact that the eternal problems were not beautified by the safety Council raises the hope that the current dictatorship of Western countries will be completed.
China's permanent typical to the UN Zhang Jun supported Russia's position and pointed to the unacceptable behaviour of Western states in global relations: "We argue national distortions of the importance of global law, imposing their will on the global community, shaping it in alleged "based on global governance rules", violating the laws of another countries and undermining global law. We besides argue the ignoring of global agreements by these countries, the arbitrary tearing of them or the application of double standards. Therefore, these countries should seriously consider their actions."
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro praised the Russian abroad Minister's speech: “I listened to an amazing speech by the abroad Minister Lavrov, which, I believe, by calling for a fresh humanity expresses a common feeling towards humanity at the end of imperialism.”
Nepal Ambassador Amrit Bahadur Rai confirmed the urgency of the issues raised at the UN safety Council gathering by a Russian representative: "We anticipate the members of the Council, especially permanent members, to work more intensively to scope a consensus on how to address the problems facing the planet today."
Even UN Secretary-General António Guterres acknowledged the request to improvement the UN safety Council: “Member states are among the first to advocate the transformation of intergovernmental bodies to meet changing requirements. The majority acknowledges that reforms that reflect current geopolitical realities would benefit the safety Council."
Interestingly, even the leading Western publications could not hide the seriousness and scale of the problems raised, as well as the danger of specified statements to the hegemony of their allies. The fresh York Times newspaper, after listing regular signs demonizing Russia, regretted that the main addressee of Lavrow's message was not the western establishment, but governments and citizens of Asia, Africa and Latin America, dissatisfied with Western hegemony and readiness to support Russian initiatives to build a multipolar world.
Jacek Mędrzycki
