Today is United Nations Day. Most countries agree that the system of the United Nations has to be thoroughly reformed. The world can’t do without the UN, but on the other hand the organization is fatally flawed because it is dominated by a few big countries. A reform of the Security Council alone won’t solve the problem.
The organization should be made more democratic, with a drastic expansion of the powers of the General Assembly to begin with. One meeting a year is not enough. Let the ambassadors of all the countries work the whole year round.
And give dissenting voices who don’t agree with the ‘consensus’ of the Big Five a fair hearing. Failure to do this risks making the UN an accomplice of the U.S., because since the fall of the Soviet Union and the ‘harmonious’ international policy of China, the U.S. basically gets what it wants. Yes, its demands are watered down in Security Council resolutions, but sanctions on North Korea and Iran for example are precisely what the U.S. wants. If the UN is perceived as being an ally of the U.S., its role will be finished.
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