The recent hollow hi-brow speeches and pronouncements at the United Nations General Assembly gathering of world leaders to celebrate its 70th birthday and Paris Climate Change Conference were the most recent reminders of the U.N.’s irrelevance in the new world order of the 21st century.
The war in Syria was the focal point of the speeches and promises made by Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin at the General Assembly. Syria, like Obama and Putin’s speeches, highlights the hollow pronouncements they made about fighting ISIS and the U.N.’s toothless resolutions to end a four year war that has killed more than 250,000 Syrians, created a global flood of refugees, destroyed humanity’s historical sites – and started a new proxy Cold War between America and Russia.
The U.N. is not relevant and must be rebuilt, renamed and relocated. It must revise its purpose if it is to be relevant in the New World Order. It is not a “United Nations” and its chief governing body is not a “Security Council.” It is an expensive “General Assembly” of insecure, corrupt and wasteful bureaucrats. If America is to continue being a major player in the New World Order and not follow in the footsteps of earlier lost empires, it should take the lead with China – the first signatory to the U.N. charter – to restructure and relocate what remains of the U.N.’s noble managed misperception to Hong Kong.
The concept of one country, one vote in the General Assembly is absurd in the 21st century. To think that a country like China, with a quarter of the world’s population and the U.S., with the world’s largest economy have equal clout to Antigua with a population of 66,000 and Equatorial Guinea with a gross national product of $218 million and oppressive bandit dictatorships, is ridiculous. Let’s get real in the New World order. Why aren’t America and China leading the charge for change?
The spirit of cooperation expressed by Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping at the White House and U.N. during Jinping’s recent trip to the U.N. and Paris at the Climate Change Conference, can take on the lead to remake and relocate the so-called U.N.
The time, money and effort being spent to administer and manage the U.N. could be better spent winding it down and starting a new organization with a solid foundation and sound fundamentals that are relevant to the 21st century.
Trying to unify the U.N. is a hopeless waste of time and money – a conclusion even a U.N. independent panel reached, joining the growing calls for reform or replacement. The panel was headed by Shaukat Aziz, prime minister of Pakistan, Luisa Dias Diogo, prime minister of Mozambique, and Jens Stoltenberg, prime minister of Norway, to investigate and prepare a report on how the U.N. could greatly improve its effectiveness.
The U.N.’s inability to do anything about Syria –Arabia’s holocaust – is a replay of Africa’s genocide in Darfur and Rwanda.
The U.N. Commission on Human Rights is another example of Charter language contradicting its mission from actual practice. It is made up of 53 governments. Dictatorships are as free to serve as democracies because there are no minimum criteria for membership. The commission is now headed by Saudi Arabia, a paragon of human rights and has included other such paragons as Algeria, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Syria, Uganda and Sudan.
The new successor to the U.N. should be named the Interlocal Security Council, or some other suitable and acceptable name. The U.N. Security Council should be replaced by representatives from all major civilizations that have made it to the 21st centuries. Assyrians need not apply. Its members should be limited to the core states of each such civilization, with rotating membership for the civilizations that do not have a core state. The members of this body would be America, China, India, Russia, with representatives from Europe, to be determined by the European Union, a representative from Africa to be determined by the African Union, a representative from Asia to be determined by ASEAN, a representative from Latin America to be determined by the Organization of American States, a representative of Arabia to be determined by the Arab League. Iran and Israel can have observer status similar to the status of Palestine and the Holy See at the U.N. today.
The ISC should be headquartered in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is the crossroads of civilization. Hong Kong was founded as a commercial trading center and has deliberately kept politics and religion out of its daily life.
Hong Kong people’s awareness of the U.N. is among the highest in the world, according to a poll conducted by Gallup International and released on U.N. Awareness Day in 2004.
With the General Secretary from South Korea, Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs Sha Zukang from China and WHO head from Hong Kong, and most of the 21st-century conflicts and hot spots in Asia, why not?