In the White House they want, for the world peace organization to work like America first
historians say, what 78 years ago, a couple of weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when Winston Churchill was visiting the Franklin Roosevelt in the White House, he was so eager to share with him the idea of creating a new organization for international security, what, despite the late time, ran to Churchill's bedroom, catching him in pajamas, to talk about the idea of the united nations. "ABOUT, what a great day it will be in history, - exclaimed Roosevelt's successor Harry Truman, by signing 26 June 1945 UN Charter. “Countries have set aside their differences in a unshakable determination to find a way to end the wars.”.
UN General Assembly
However, all this is in the past.. Today, the United Nations more often hinders American presidents. U.S. Representative to the UN Cherit Norman-Chalet Announces Last Year's General Assembly Session, that the fifth committee of the GA, Responsible for administrative and budgetary matters, unable to work out solutions to critical issues, especially on, which “require political discussion”. She added,, that the US is deeply concerned “Lack of respect for consent, demonstrated by the Group of 77 ".
This group, established in 1964 year, It includes 134 Member States. She stands for UN reform, in which she is not comfortable with the composition of the Security Council (Total 5 permanent members) and a true veto, Permanent Members of the UN Security Council. This is what the American Cherit Norman-Chalet had in mind.
Over the decades of the existence of the UN, problems have really accumulated in the system of its functioning.: high expense, bulkiness, duplication of functions of various commissions, committees and agencies. However, Washington is tying its hands in the work of the war prevention mechanism., namely veto, held by the Security Council, in particular, China and Russia. Therefore the US bombed Yugoslavia in 1999 year, invaded Iraq in 2003 year, intervened in Syria in 2014 year without UN Security Council sanctions.
These violations of the UN Charter and international law have not led to the expulsion of the United States from the Organization, to no general protest of member countries. And for the main payer of the UN, covering 22 percent of the organization’s budget - 674,2 million dollars (Russia - about 4 percent, 73,7 million dollars), - important, for the UN to work on the principle of America first, when paid.
President Donald Trump
known, that the developed countries of the West make a much larger contribution to the UN budget, than the rest of the world. The pan-European contribution is 844 million dollars. Together with china (12 percent of the budget - 367,9 million dollars) major world powers pay the most, whereas countries, who receive direct assistance from the UN, they pay very little - more often 0,001 percent of the budget. Trump not Roosevelt, he wants, for the UN to work out American money, or pinches US fee. At the end of last fiscal year in total debt 65 UN member countries in 1,4 trillion dollars the United States should 674 million for 2019 year 381 million in previous years.
However, it is not only about money. The erosion of the UN status and the diminution of its prestige have become a strategy for the United States and its allies to clear the field of international activity from opponents. Here is what writes, eg, The Economist: "Seemed, can be happy, that by its 75th anniversary the UN has grown from 51 to 193 members and is at the center of the global structure, law-based, “But there is no eternal international structure… Rules remain, but major powers increasingly ignore them. Russia has captured part of Ukraine, China occupied disputed territories in the South China Sea. America has long complained about the price of its support for the multilateral system ... The chief architect of the system [USA] now has a president, which the, looks like, gladly ready to launch a destructive ball at the UN ”.
Frankly said. US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement, from the nuclear agreement on Iran, blocking the election of new judges to the WTO appeals bodies, abuse of the American privilege of the holder of the world reserve currency - all this ceases to be details of character "Crazy president of the United States". There is a breakdown of the world order under the interests of the last empire of our time, and the United Nations becomes one of the main opponents in this. Therefore, Washington does not need UNESCO, no other UN organizations. The General Assembly has not yet understood, that you need to sit not at holiday tables and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Organization, and strengthen the protection of the only international organization, able to strengthen the world.
UN Secretary General António Guterres
However, the UN decision-making mechanism is deeply affected by the virus of American superiority. 22 percent of the budget, all American employees in the apparatus, UN committees and commissions… What the UN Secretary-General António Guterres thinks about this? Some of his statements sound depressing: “The world is not multipolar, - says the secretary general, “He is extremely chaotic.”, what follows, what “The UN and its joint global governance embodied in it are doomed to be less effective in the world of competition of great powers”. That is, need a leader. One. So that without competition. writes The Economist, "America ... may again be the standard bearer of the liberal world order". However, it is this “standard bearer" who systematically destroys the UN.
The upcoming election of the new president of the United States is unlikely to stop the ongoing process.. Without reform, the UN is not happy, it seems, no one. And for the reforms, which would strengthen the influence of all states on the activities of the Organization and its institutions, US and other “rich” do not want to pay. It's really not up to anniversaries.
Elena PUSTOVOYTOVA
