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USA aims to privatize United Nations
06/18/2005 14:14
The USA may halve its fees to the UN's budget. If the law is passed, the
UN will be deprived of more than 200 million dollars annually
It becomes obvious with every year that cooperation between nations and
states in global scale is vital for both the survival and the development of
the human civilization. The time of declarations has passed - the present-day
era requires real actions, not just plain statements. The first step in this
direction is seemingly rather simple, although it turns out to be impossible in
practice. It goes about the reform of the United Nations Organization.
Within the period of 15 years the reform of the UN has become one of the
most favorite subjects to talk about for politicians, diplomats, scientists of
politics and journalists. In general, the issue became popular for those
people, who are fond of elevated conversations about brotherhood and
partnership for all peoples of planet Earth.
Numerous discussions, summits, conferences and round-table discussions
have yielded rather modest results. There is still no consent on either certain
plans of the UN reform, or spheres of the UN's activity, from which the work to
increase efficiency of the organization should be started.
There is nothing surprising about the fact that politicians, who are used
to coordinating any reforms with power redistribution to their own benefit,
paid their attention to the Security Council - the top agency of the United
Nations Organization, which makes decisions to maintain peace and safety on
Earth.
It was probably a correct idea. One should at first organize the
decision-making process of an institution in order to increase its work
efficiency afterwards. Taking account of the UN peculiarity, certain changes in
the UN Security Council could be capable of improving the general legitimacy of
the organization.
However, various plans to reform the Security Council have to deal with a
powerful resistance in the society too. Two most important positions have been
formed on this issue with their own proponents. Germany, the leader of the
first group of states, stands for a larger number of constant Security
Council's members, possessing the veto right. The leader of another group, the
USA, wants the UN to obey its foreign policy.
Without making profound analysis of resolutions, programs and other
documents of the ilk, we would like to pay attention to an internal
contradiction, which can be seen in the standpoint of the USA.
The well-known American tradition, which has probably become a corner
stone of the American state structure, is to argue over every single issue on
the political agenda. Such disputes may lead to a compromise, which could be
acceptable for all sides involved in the dispute. However, the inconsistent
stance of the US political administration regarding the reform of the United
Nations Organization on the whole and the Security Council in particular is
simply staggering.
While the US Department of State is blocking reform plans suggested by
Germany and its followers, the US Congress is developing a law, according to
which the USA will have a right to impose sanctions against the UN for its
unwillingness to reform itself. It is worth mentioning in this respect that
sanctions are rather serious. The USA may halve its fees to the UN's budget.
The United States is one of the largest financial donors of the organization.
If the law is passed, the UN will be deprived of more than 200 million dollars
annually.
Despite all efforts taken by certain congressmen with Henry Hyde, the
chairman of the international relations committee at the head, the law is not
likely to become a part of reality. The US administration realizes that it will
not be able to solve all problems of the world alone. Washington has already
faced considerable difficulties in the democratization and restoration of Iraq
after making a single-handed decision to launch the Iraqi campaign. It seems
that the USA values international cooperation now.
Global problems affect almost every nation in the world. Even most
ambitious world leaders can't help understanding it. There is still a hope that
the talks about the reform of the UN Security Council and the UN on the whole
will be successful.
Read the original in Russian: (Translated by: Dmitry Sudakov)
Pravda.Ru
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