This week is the 80th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and world leaders have gathered in New York for the occasion. But amid growing geopolitical stresses, climate change has increased and global rules-based orders have increased challenges, mood at all.
Instead, it seems that the United Nations has challenged the storage as before.
One of the main reasons is that Israel was attacked by Partition Gaza and Russia’s Ukraine in the Security Council. Its peace campaigns have specially criticized in Africa. And last year, a group of climate policy experts, including the Met and Climate Chief Christiana Figures, designer United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and major climate scientist Johann Rockstrom, said COP Climate Summit, “Now not fit for purpose.”
But General Secretary Antonio Guterres emphasized the importance of the United Nations to deal with global issues. “No country can stop an epidemic alone. No army can stop the rising temperature,” Heer said while addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Is, in fact, the United Nations is a General Assembly?
One of the six major organs formed the United Nations, UNGA is the main representative body, which provides space to deliberately perform policies and pass recommendations through resolutions.
UNGA resolution, in fact, only statements of intentions, are expressed to the international agreed position. They usually do not apply by law.
“We have no carrots and no rods,” Guterres admitted that he was talking to the challenges of the United Nations facial to make practical differences in the context of security. “And, as we have no carrots and there is no sticks in a world in which we have geopolitical division that we have, it is extremely difficult to understand the need to come to the current struggles.”
Can the United Nations really help bring peace?
The Security Council (UNSC) is considered the main global body to preserve international peace and security, but has long been faced for a long criticism for IT limited composition, often leading to blind resolutions of key members.
It is made up of five permanent members: UK, US, Russia, China and France – These are all nuclear power. There are 10 non-installed members, who are selected on a rotational system on the basis of the area every two years.
Crusley, five permanent members have the power to make unilateral decisions, Conversely, seven of the 10 non-installed UNSC members should reject a resolution to prevent it from passing it.
This power has been used by veto-holding powers to continuously promote its own interests, when the US has blocked the blocks blocked by the US or the immediate ceasefire in Russia, which prevent war in Ukraine.
Critics say the Security Council is old and irreversible. This is especially true for Africa and South America, whose security council has no permanent representative.
Daniel Forty, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group Think Tank, told DW that it is difficult to improve because “permanent five members are reluctant to agree on any changes that will dilute his impact.”
“Some people suggest that the Security Council is working well now,” he continued. “Georginal conflict between the US, China and Russia has made all this impossible for the council to respond to the world’s worst struggles in the last decade. It has scolded the council -and in detail, unheard -righteous.”
Is we struggling for the funding of the United Nations?
The United Nations is generally funded in an example, as compulsory by the contribution of its member states, based on the size and wealth and voluntary contribution of the country.
Although the United States still contributes to the organization, Donald Trump’s decision to signed a group of executive orders withdrawn from several United Nations Institutions and programs, including the World Health Organization (WHO), has given up the organization in some financial difficulty.
Earlier this month, Gutres proposed a deduction of $ 500 million (€ 425 million) in the UN budget next year, which was below $ 3.2 billion, equal to about 15% of its main budget. Initiatives such as the World Food Program (Budget of $ 9.7 billion), UNHCR program for refugees ($ 10.7 billion) and WHO ($ 6.8 billion) face even more costs and hence financial uncertainty.
“The assistance cuts and freeze that Washington has made it to, forcing the organization during the period of conservative retraining,” said Forty. “No other country is not taking steps to fill all the funding intervals left behind. This will not only require the Consultation cut with the United Nations, but because it provides to people around the world in support. It means low vaccination campaign, low education initiative, and low support for rehabilitation.”
Can the United Nations improve more relevant?
The call for improvement in the United Nations has almost been as an outfit as an outfit, but is growing loudly and wide. Irish President Michael D. The United Nations was “rebuilt for the future, which was giving agency to Africa, Asia and Latin America last year”.
In February, Trump said: “I have always felt that the United Nations has a tremendous ability. It does not remain till that capacity.” Hey, this week, the General Assembly doubled on the claim.
Forti is then a need, but therefore possibility, for change. “The organization may improve. But it will be a bumpy road on the way. Serious improvement will take time and will possibly be a painful practice for countries that trust the United Nations,” Heer said.
Hey said, “The United Nations will need a clear vision of reform from the next second general secretary to go to its next era, and will have great diplomatic support from many members of the United Nations. Why the United Nations matters to its people.”
Edited by: Rob Madge