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This is an important press conference as Mr Guterres completely supported the concepts of International Law (instead of some rules based international order) and Multilateralism with the UN as the international body upholding the principles of the UN Charter. This has been the consistent message of Russia and China.
Following is a short summary of the recent speeches by Mr. Lavrov and Mr. H.E. Wang Yi, State Councilor and Foreign Minister of The People’s Republic of China at the UN Security Council High-Level Meeting titled “Maintenance of international peace and security: Upholding multilateralism and the United Nations-centred international system,” held via videoconference, Moscow, May 7, 2021.
When first writing this summary, I ended with ” …. the gauntlet has been thrown down professionally and formally and the challenge is out in the open.” Mr Guterres confirmed this and dare I say, made his choice in no uncertain terms.
Mr. Lavrov spoke about multilateralism and universally recognized norms of international law with the United Nations as a key platform for coordinating efforts as it is the backbone of the modern global order, where all independent states are represented.
Mr Wang Yi spoke about, you guessed it .. “The United Nations is the banner of multilateralism. To pursue multilateralism, we must follow the basic norms governing international relations built around the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, uphold the authority and stature of the UN, and ensure its central role in international affairs. That is what it means to practice multilateralism, an intrinsic nature that is absolutely incompatible with unilateralism.” and “The key is to promote law-based international relations, observe universally recognized international laws and norms, and honor international agreements adopted by all parties. International rules must be based on international law, and must be written by all. They are not a patent or a privilege of a few. They must be applicable to all countries, and there should be no room for exceptionalism or double standards.”
In comparison, these two speeches set out the resistance (Zone B) to a ‘rules-based international order’, (Zone A) which is simply another attempt at single polar hegemony and also called ‘a new concert’ of international relations and I would argue, not very far off from the much-maligned green new deals and (not so great) resets.
I fail to see how it’s important that the head of an organization which by definition,design and documentation is “International Law” says “I support International Law”, is this not a case of a cat saying “water is wet”!, for those who understand a cat can’t speak English I hope the eqivelence is Guterres can’t speak International Law for if he could his pathetic organization would actually be able to enforce it!.
@isw
Yes, you fail to see the importance.
Study the history and the present developments.
This isn’t fast food. It’s war or peace, hegemony vs sovereignty, liberty and progress. It is subject matter than is deeper than “Super Size that?” and “what condiments do you want?”
Larchmonter 445, my friend and close comrade, how true, how very true. I say again, we are placed roughly at 23:00 27 July 1914. It’s that close (and yes, I know I’ve upped the hour). I can not, and will not, say why I feel we are creeping ever closer to open, and catastrophic, hostilities, but let me try to explain.
I am not stupud, or stupid as the true word says, I see many things and collate all that I see. Take 09 May 2021, 76th anniversary of the total defeat of Germany and her many allies in a Götterdämmerung the likes of which this world has rarely seen. Parade was as usual with months of work and preparation, but the actual Parade was different this year. At first it was difficult to put my finger on it, but now I understand. The crowds cheered and waved as we advanced north on Ulitsiya Lenina to the reviewing stands, the veterans in the reviewing stands saluted me as the senior officer of our unit. But it was the two lines of officers just to the left of the stands that brought it all home, and I looked at vid clips a hundred times of a tiny blink of an eye time and event to verify.
The veterans, many whom we know personally, were not smiling, not a one as we saluted each other, nor was I smiling. Heads were held high, but the smiles from years past were gone, and the wife of one quite elderly veteran actually had tears in her eyes. The two lines of senior Flot and Army officers just to the left of the veterans, it is required that we salute each other, Military Decorum at it’s finest, honors are rendered, but this year there were no smiles. Heads were held high, the salutes from them and me were perfect, yet none of us smiled. It is the set of the jaw that tells all, and it was the mid level and senior officers, and me, who told the tale. All, including me, were deadly serious….as were every soldier, sailor, Marine and Spetznaz I talked to or saw in Parade. I know, and they know, what’s coming.
Auslander
Author http://rhauslander.com/
Ominous words my friend.
Surely, you never overstate, I know very well.
And you live in a zone whose ‘drums and smoke signals’ are the most sensitive, so you have perceptive skills like any scout must have.
We see the desperation of the Europeans, and hear their outlandish words, like the truly frightened whistling past the graveyard. The bravado as false as any in history of the Americans.
The lot of them, NATO, the Ukies, the Biden ‘children’ sent to stir the pot, charging treason of Putin’s daughter’s godfather, the goading by Zelinsky who is desperate for war.
All of this just a mistake away from warfare with steel and sulfur, thermobaric rockets and conventional warheads as powerful as nuclear.
Serious moment in modern history, marked by irrational statements and thoughtless policy, massive mistakes to intimidate the Bear.
They know not what awaits them.
Larchmonter, my comrade,
“They know not what awaits them.” A vast understatement if ever there was one.
Even President Putin’s ‘subconscious’ aura at his Parade and wreath laying after the soldiers marched away said the same, as did all those around him. Foggy Bottom et al should well heed the not so subtle messages of the last few days, and from the looks of it, the serious thinkers in parts of Europe, the one or two parts that matter, are moving heaven and earth to prevent what will be a catastrophe of world proportions.
The burning question is will their thoughts and protestations be listened to. Sadly, methinks not. The hubris in Foggy Bottom, Five Points and Langley is unfathomable but very real. Only a fool believes his own propaganda, and fools be the lot of them.
Auslander
Dear Auslander,
Always reading yours and Larchmonter’s and other esteemed comrades of this information battlefield. On that point I would point out that there is not much hubris at that place. You cannot say the clowns suffer hubris just because they do what the circus master tells them to. Those people, the hidden hands, know very well what they are doing. The harsh global catastrophic consequences you gentlemen speak of are precisely what they are after.
Salute to you all.
I believe Putin is the godfather of Medvechuk’s young daughter. Not sure that he is godfather to Putin’s daughter ??
I got the very same feeling, even from President Putin’s expression as he sat. As if in resignation of the inevitable.
Even my own intuition is telling me the same, even though I am far removed from much more astute perceptions than mine, Even my mother in law, in her 95th year senses it and conveyed the same to me.
Davi,
You are not the only one who sensed the feelings at both our Parade and the one in Moskau. My wife and all her friends feel the same and they all remarked about the ambiance of Parade and the changed in demeanor of the local based soldiers and sailors in this village.
What will be will be.
Auslander
Larchmonter445,
I find the following rather ominous :
“….For this second «mission» the European Union plays an important role, as the US Army has requested the establishment of “a military Schengen Area”. The Action Plan on military mobility, presented by the European Commission in 2018, envisages modifying “infrastructures (bridges, railways, and roads) that are not suitable for the weight or size of heavy military vehicles”. For example, if a bridge cannot carry the weight of a 70-ton tank column, it must be strengthened or rebuilt. After having earmarked an initial allocation of around 2 billion euros for this purpose, in public money subtracted from social expenses…..”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/europe-war-game-ground-us-nato-strategy/5745136
And this :
“….This request was embraced by NATO: the North Atlantic Council, meeting on 8 November 2017 at the level of defence ministers, officially requested the European Union to “implement national rules that facilitate the passage of military forces through the borders and, at the same time, to ‘improve civil infrastructures so that they are adapted to military requirements….”.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-militarization-of-the-european-union-schengen-area-handed-over-to-us-nato-forces/5634742?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-militarization-of-the-european-union-schengen-area-handed-over-to-us-nato-forces/5634742?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles
sandinEd,
I had heard of the order to strengthen bridges and roads especially in the east of Europe, but I have yet to hear of such being done to any great extent. It may have been done, it’s quite possible I just don’t have informations on such, but those bridges have a lifespan numbered in minutes if the kaka hits the whirling blades.
There are no peer armed forces in Europe who can fight Rossiya. Germany destroyed her own army, at this time FRG, who used to be the iron spine of Europe, can not field a battalion of main battle tanks.The rest are a joke and scattered all over Europe, let alone being willing to fight and die for Foggy Bottom if needs be.
US does not have anywhere near enough troops in ETO to make any attack, or resistance, considered to be worthwhile and to build up to something viable will take 12-15 months although some equipage is in position. Do you think those lagers of stored tanks and trucks will be viable 1 or 2 hours after the balloon goes up? On the other hand the quite some numbers of missile batteries SehSha has installed all over Europe including Romania and Bulgaria are a threat in that although they are ‘officially’ air defense units, an amoeba crawling through protozoan mush knows those ‘air defense’ batteries are in reality dual purpose and can almost instantly launch a considerable number of cruise missiles.
If things go sour those launchers will launch hordes of cruise missiles aimed at Kaliningrad and our little village, our little village simply as a point of honor because of Russian Spring in ’14 which negated Uncle Sugar’s plans for Sevastopol to be the base of the American Black Sea Fleet. While the launch crews will be in deep kaka and probably won’t see the dawn considering they are at most 20 minutes from Russia and Krimea and in many locations considerably less, we personally will find out just how good Buk, S300, S400, S500, S600 and Pantsir are, and whether we have enough of them.
We pray for peace and for sensible minds to stop this madness….but we are prepared for war much as we hate war, and damn their eyes, damn their souls to The Dark Lord for what they are doing.
Auslander
Auslander,
thanks for your detailed reply. What worries me is that some in the US are addicted to tough posturing which keeps escalating and could soon go very wrong – in Europe – and they won’t care how much of Europe is destroyed. Will they turn to nuclear weapons when their plans don’t go well ?. They do remind me of the characters in ‘ Dr. Strangelove – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.’
Is it possible the story of the ‘ Military Schengen Area ‘ was put out in an attempt to intimidate Russia and there was never any prospect of it coming to fruition ? The ” Putin is a killer ” was obviously a rehearsed insult – there seems to be an end-of-empire madness taking hold.
I remember seeing a photo of US brass just after Iran had attacked US positions in Iraq. Milley was there. These people looked scared. I thought then they had been force-fed a dose of reality. Have they forgotten so soon ?
Please stay safe however you can – I hope against hope you will be able to.
If we know the planning & white flags that went before WWI & II, 9-11, & the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria et al – the hegemon is unlikely to tolerate the thorn, that is the Russian Federation, under a very capable & effective Putin. We can be sure that it is bidding its time to finish the job that they likely regretted not doing when the USSR collapsed under Yeltsin in the early 1990s. Now that RF is militarily awe-inspiring, & seemingly impregnable – a threat – not existential but of stature & its ‘absolute’ dominance keeps them awake scheming & plotting for an opening to deliver a mortal salvo. The thorn in the hegemon’s side must be taken out by any means. If only it is just that – a pipe dream!
Like the tale of King Ahab in the OT where he was encouraged by all his faux prophets to go and take back Samaria only to meet his death on the battlefield, even though he was in disguise rather than in his royal regalia. An arrow caught him in between his shoulders, and he bled to death. It is an ominous tale that the US would be wise to take heed. Maybe the US swamp cabal is too far gone for restraints to work.
i’m sure it hasn’t escaped you that both putin & lavrov continually make this point…it is pivotal. the deranged state & its co-optives all wish to change that fundamental & replace it with their own rules based operative. the essential of which translates into whatsoever i the deranged state does is right without question & it goes without saying that whatsoever i the deranged state wants, needs, lusts after or must have is therefore mine, again without question.
Oh, you meant u.s.a. and the collective west?
yes, deranged and evil as well, that’s USA and it’s master Israel who’s busy genociding the Palestinians right now
Israel is not the master of the USA, but it is the middle eastern proxy of the USA. American Zionists and Israeli are so different; the Israeli are nationalists, the American Zionists are globalists, they hate each other.
What is happening between Israel and Palestinians is none of our business, it is not an international conflict but a local conflict since 1946, we should not pick sides. That in Syria was a conflict between international actors.
I wish it were true that the Palestinian struggle were an internal issue only. Given that the USA supplies the IDF and the US government finances Israel to a significant part, the Palestinian struggle is international like the Syrian war.
The UN enshrines a two-state solution in the borders of 1967. Israel systematically ignores and violates the UN resolutions adopted regarding the matter, thus places itself afoul of international law. Israel believes itself to be above any law, exceptional, whereas in truth it is an apartheid state worse than the former South Africa.
In my opinion, for a more peaceful world, any party violating international law should be denied ammunition and weapons. No exceptions.
@Marcel If the Israeli want an apartheid state that is their business, to be honest, without that apartheid state they would not have survived. I am not picking sides, i really do not care who is on the winning side, you are right about the UN resolution though.
The Israel-Palestinian conflict is a local conflict where two (nationalist) sides fight each other for control over a small territory with a religious historical significance to both sides.
The Syrian conflict was about the creation of an Islamist Caliphate (which is internationalist in nature) with western, Turkish and Salafist backing. All the major international actors (including Russia) were ‘directly’ involved in the Syrian conflict. This is not what is happening in Israel.
dave, if I may, this is an international conflict – always was and always will be. Israel and the Arab countries – Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia(oil embargo in 1973) have been directly at each other in major wars at least on 3 different occasions(not including minor ones like Intifada or border clashes that happen intermittently at Golan or Lebanese border, Syria getting bombed 100’s of times by Israel or Israel pre-emptive attack on Iraq/Osirak reactor or Mossad’s assassinations). Each side was supported each time in those major wars with global superpowers – US and Soviet Union. Now a days there is also the axis of resistance that is challenging Israel – Iran, Syria, Lebanon/Hezbollah, Yemen/Houthis and Iraq/PMU. There is Turkey too in the sidelines. The entire Middle East is involved.
This is anything but a local conflict – on Israel side there is the “The International Jew” and global Zionists spread through out the world and also its main supporter being The United States and Great Britain and to a lesser extent other European countries. On the Palestinian side there are Arab populations(not their leaders), the wider Muslim “ummah”, that is spread out from Mauritania to Malaysia.
Israel has nuclear weapons, Iran may acquire them eventually(surrounded by hostile Arabs like Wahhabi’s ruling regimes in GCC, ISIS, US military bases surrounding it or Israel cozying up more with the Kurds in North posing a territorial threat or the future Taliban in the East).
This conflict is not local. There are resolutions after resolutions in UN since 1948 to resolve this conflict. There is hardly any other territory – probably besides Kashmir, which has a history of resolutions by International community dating back to over 70 years now.
Russia will have to dismember, divide and split Ukraine into the parts
Unfortuatelly, it will be only way for Russia to ensure its security.
West Ukrainian Banderist extremism will always be problem for Russia and people of Ukraine.
Does not matter how much disaster they bring to Ukraine they will never change their extremist agenda.
And today they rule Ukraine by terror. And they will not give up, with help from USA and the West.
Any reasoning with them is impossible. Any conversation with them is meaningless
Sooner or later, Russia will have to finish with Ukraine as it is
Unfortunatelly, there is not any other way.
“Mr. Lavrov spoke about multilateralism and universally recognized norms of international law with the United Nations as a key platform for coordinating efforts as it is the backbone of the modern global order, where all independent states are represented.”
In addition:
https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/12/un-report-pushes-global-government-to-prevent-future-pandemics/
A new report, published by the United Nations, has claimed the covid19 “pandemic” would have been prevented had the UN – and specifically the World Health Organizaion – been given more global authority.
..[]…
All of which can be generally summed up as “give the WHO (and their cronies) more money, and more power”.
Each section of their recommendations contains several bullet points of its own, far too many to go through all of them, but there’s definitely some paragraphs that should cause any attentive reader to raise an eyebrow:
WHO to establish a new global system for surveillance, based on full transparency by all parties, using state-of-the-art digital tools to connect information centres around the world and including animal and environmental health surveillance, with appropriate protections of people’s rights
…Which means essentially legalising global surveillance programs on a massive scale, with – of course – “appropriate protections
of people’s rights” (and shame on you for thinking otherwise).
And then there is:
Future declarations of a PHEIC by the WHO Director-General should be based on the precautionary principle where warranted
…Which calls for the Director-General of the WHO to have the power to declare a global “pandemic”, not because there definitely is a new disease killing people, but because they think there might be.
Essentially handing the Director-General of the WHO the power to simply create a pandemic whenever they feel the need. Somewhat ironically the panel for “pandemic prevention”, is recommending making “pandemics” far more likely.
Kit Knightly comments on WHO call: “How a report commissioned by the WHO, calling to give more money and power to the WHO can be called Independent I don’t know.”
https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/12/un-report-pushes-global-government-to-prevent-future-pandemics/
Well, Mr Putin explained very carefully that the UN must be reformed already some years ago. He seems to want to add the G30 or some further strengthening to the UNSC. And then Mr Lavrov explained the make-up of the WHO. 25 Russians, less than 50 Chinese and 4000 from NATO countries. So, a little reform is needed here as well. The WHO is currently mainly a western tool that issued to malign China and of course, make bank with monies that we don’t even know about and push vaccines for the multi-nationals.
But what is true here, is that the UN Charter is the only document and agreement that we have to govern international law. It is a good one as well.
If the US and cronies continually breaks the provisions of the charter for unilateral action (and we see this now playing out in front of our eyes in Israel), it is not necessarily the UN or the Charter that is at fault here. It is the one that breaks the international law that is clear as daylight in the charter.
This has become one of the existential issues of our times. I was quite surprised when Guterres spoke the same language as Russia and China. I reason that there must be some strength behind such a gutsy move. Guterres is also up for re-election which will make things interesting in those circles. https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/01/1081832
“Well, Mr Putin explained very carefully that the UN must be reformed already some years ago.”
He’s not making a very good job of that.
https://tapnewswire.com/2021/03/who-insider-blows-whistle-on-gates-and-gavi-video/
The International Health regulation was adopted in 2005 but implemented and come into force in 2008 from 2008 they wanted to do implementation training for all the regions.
Switzerland is the centre of a lot o corruption because we have one of the most important NGO its GAVI the
foundation Bill Gates has which has total immunity (they can do whatever they want). The Police cannot come
and look into their computer.
When the pandemic happened I was in South Korea for a big meeting and I realised there was something not right not corresponding to the International Health Regulations. I traveled back and I think this is very weird
the news says one thing, people don’t behave the same in the airports.
So I started to look and realized, over this whole year, all the breaches compared to the International Health Regulation and Preparedness plan and i’m working now for a lawyer in Quebec and finding out a bit more and have 4 points to talk about.
First that this obligation is signed by 194 member states but it is embedded in the constitution of the WHO.
So, they don’t need to adopt it. It is immediately approved and it’s an obligation so it is legally binding
directly (yes,the International Health Regulation) and this is the trick because nobody knows this,
it’s in the papers but you have to go and dig, the inconsistencies of everything they are doing, to
see that they are directing, as a corporate agency, WHO, on behalf of health security of the International
Health Regulations they have made a third addition because the 2005 addition is the second addition (the
first was in 1969) but the booklet of 2005 is written (on the front cover) as 2nd edition and the 3rd edition comes in 2014 to come into force in 2016 and this has made health security a dictatorship where Director General can decide, on his own, to sell vaccines to sell the PCR instead of all the documents that say you have to have the results of a clinical. So, finding out some inconsistencies that have not been used at all in law.
So if it is an obligation Tedros, when he says something, all the countries have to obey under law.
You mean all the member states of the WHO? everyone who has signed the agreement with the WHO? because,as you are saying, this is part of the Constitution of the WHO this is binding law for everyone who is a member of the WHO.
Right, with two reservations.There are two countries in 2009,in the second edition that made reservations the USA and Iran. They don’t want to obey the WHO completely.
https://www.rospotrebnadzor.ru/en/about/info/news/news_details.php?ELEMENT_ID=2872
Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing
In accordance with the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation in 2015-2016 Russia will assist partner countries in the implementation and long-term execution of the International Health Regulations of WHO – a unique international mechanism which is of critically great importance for the global response to the threat to public health, similar to the current Ebola outbreak.
The International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization (IHR) are legally binding rules adopted by all WHO Member States to prevent threats of diseases that can spread rapidly between States and constitute a public health emergency of international concern.
However, not all the States Parties have sufficient organizational and technical capacity to introduce and implement the requirements of the IHR.
In order to support the implementation and long-term execution of the IHR in the partner countries the Russian Government has committed itself to finance the corresponding two-year aid program.
Assistance will be provided by adding an additional target contribution to the World Health Organization for the implementation of measures to strengthen national capacities of countries to implement the IHR.
One suspects Mr Guterres will be called into someone’s office in DC or NYC and told to shut the F up and not bite the hand that feeds him.
What you suspect is an actuality. I also think he took a bold step to come out open because of Russia and China otherwise he would have remained mute. Furthermore, I suspect the powers that be might have an inclining to replace him and this might be a silent “fvck u” to them as a way to save face or salvage whatever is left of his pride and reputation after serving on one of the most corrupt and ineffective global instituions. Either way their is news out there that the collective west is going to try and form new international (rules based) organs that work almost in parallel to what the UN (supposedly) does as a way to circumvate all this multilateral international nonsense. To them it would seem the UN is overcrowded and no longer serves to realize their agenda. Shoot! Trump already threatened to leave the ‘useless’ WHO I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of further subterfuge or outright boycott coming from DC or Brussels in the near future.
While it’s good to know that the UN believes in the UN Charter, the question is about implementation. As has been happening since 1948, Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing and persecution of the Palestinians. It has violated numerous UN resolutions.
With impunity. This does not reflect well on the institution.
Likewise, the US engages in unilateral sanctions against Cuba. Just about all countries are against it, yet, rather than being sanctioned itself for its many violations of international law, the US never faces repercussions.
It’s this serious imbalance between what the UN stands for, and its seeming inability to enforce international law, that is the problem.
The way both Secretaries danced around the issue of Israeli war crimes ongoing is typical and frankly, to this observer, discouraging, though not surprising.
It’s said that the arc of justice is long. However, 72 years of Israeli violations, starting with the Nakba, is quite long enough, isn’t it?
60 years of violations of Cuban sovereignty and blockade is quite long enough, isn’t it?
Who is holding up UNSC action? And who has held up this for years now.
I went to look for descriptions of the steps taken since Monday, so, I apologize for these sources – I’m only posting them to have the timeline and who said what and when. Reading these will make a crystal clear why the call to get back to International Law and the very big need for that. Israel is breaking this with impunity, and from the timelines on these sources, one can see again who is helping them. To my mind we need peacekeepers right now and all settlement frozen until someone with sense can go and help sort it out. As I was looking for timelines since Monday, I picked up the same old excuses in years gone by, by the same actors.
And also remember the previous four years, when Trump and his son-in-law gave Jerusalem to the Zionists and made it quite fine for the Israelis to continue their stealing of property and settlement with a supposed massive ‘peace making’. Aargh, I forget all the catchy names. The Trump Historic Peace Plan which gave Israel even more impunity.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20210511-un-security-council-holds-emergency-meeting-on-jerusalem-considers-statement
https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-security-council-statement-on-jerusalem-held-up-by-us/
It is not that I really disagree with you, but there are good players there in the UN. And what is the alternative? The rules based international order? I don’t think so.
Guterres is merely recognizing the age old reality that he who pays the piper calls the tune. in terms of present and future …. huge economic manufacturing power there is simply no competitor to china. in terms of advanced at the cutting edge of weaponry and the ability to project it there is no competitor to russia. both of these nations want peace, national sovereignty and respect for international law. it is not difficult to see who the smaller states of the world will fall in behind over the coming decade.
inevitably states like people choose to follow those who can help them protect what they have and improve on what is already there.
does anyone see this protection and assitance coming from the west?
I’m afraid the UN is not the answer to the world’s problems.
The IPCC is a global joke to all those who believe in evidence-based science. But the UN funds it and supports it uncritically. It proves that the UN is unfit for purpose in providing global leadership on climate.
Of course, all organisations have imperfections and the question is whether the UN, warts and all, represents the least-worst option currently for providing global fora for resolution of international diplomatic tensions or not.
Like most organisations of its ilk, it tends to maintain the status quo for too long before agreeing to fundamental reform due to self-interest, inertia and corruption.
A UN of some form or other will always be needed in the real world.
But my personal view is that the UN as currently constituted and located has run its race and needs radically restructuring, updating or simply replacing.
@ Rhys Jagger:
you spoke no greater truth ‘I’m afraid the UN is not the answer to the world’s problems.’ and ‘the UN is unfit for purpose in providing global leadership on climate.’
Some immortal words from three experts cough, cough??
Ambassador J. Reuben Clark, Jr. said this about the UN and how it was supposed to end wars:
“There seems no reason to doubt that such real approval as the Charter has among the people is based upon the belief that if the charter is put into effect, wars will end….The Charter will not certainly end war. The Charter provides for force to bring peace, but such use of force is itself war…The Charter does take from us the power to declare war and to choose the side on which one must fight.”
and then there is Herbert Hoover who said on august 10, 1962:
“I urged the ratification of the United Nations by the Senate, but now we must realize the United Nations has failed to give us even a remote hope of lasting peace. Instead it adds to the dangers of wars, which now surround us.”
and finally the words of a Dr. Julian Huxley, who had served as Director of UNESCO:
“While a faint trace of God still broods over the world like the smile of a Cheshire cat, science and knowledge will soon rub that trace away.”
as for me well Climate is easily solved one just needs the correct history book or 2. lol
And I would add the fight of nations against global imperialistic capitalism. Even. the survival of nations if they don’t winn this one. It’s fundamentally historic.
The game is over. The UN belongs to the past. Whatever was once its value has now collapses. Russia must come up with something with new life and energy that can take its place. Sticking to the old worn out is self defeating. This is the big problem before Russia. Create something a new elan,, launch a new approach or wither away with the West on its way out. This is also so for the Olympic games. That is also a gone case. This could be a possible start if Russia China could organize an international sports event for Peace. Even if at first only a few countries or groups participate i am sure this will grow out into something marvelous.. The future is before us why not jump into it ?
BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) — China on Friday slammed the United States for compelling the UN Security Council to postpone a meeting on the Palestine-Israel issue that was originally scheduled to open Friday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing that on Monday, the United States expressed opposition to the adoption of a Security Council presidential statement on the Palestine-Israel issue, and it also blocked the issuance of a statement from UN Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday expressing concern about the situation in Palestine. “Like the international community, China is also gravely concerned about the current escalating situation between Israel and Palestine,” said Hua. She said that, as holder of the rotating UNSC presidency in May, China has been actively mediating and promoted the convening of two emergency consultations of the Security Council to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The members of the Security Council have generally expressed their concerns and worries about the conflict situation and requested the Security Council to play its due role to promote the stability and cooling of the situation and prevent it from getting out of hand,” she said. Hua said that the United States has taken the opposite position against the international community, and she asked the country to explain why it is doing this. “I wonder if the U.S. side can give a candid answer to this question. Why is it doing this?” she said. She said that the United States keeps saying it cares about the human rights of Muslims. Now the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reoccurred, and a large number of Palestinian Muslims have been affected by the war and are suffering, but the United States shows indifference to their suffering and has been strongly obstructive on the issue. Meanwhile, it joined with a few of its allies and attempted to organize meaningless meetings on Xinjiang-related issues based on lies and political prejudice, which was actually a political farce, she said. The United States should realize that the lives of Palestinian Muslims are equally precious,” said the spokesperson. Hua said that, in the face of the current serious situation, all sides must make every effort to cool the situation, protect the safety and rights and interests of ordinary people, and prevent the crisis from escalating and getting out of control. “China will continue to push the Security Council to perform its duties in maintaining international peace and security, take action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at an early date, reiterate its commitment and firm support for a ‘two-state solution,’ and promote the restoration of peace and stability in the region as soon as possible,” said Hua. ”
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Dear Saker,
Thank you!
But we, what can we do for peace and to safe Earth and ourselfes?
Otherwise, all will be pulverized sooner than suspected! What can we do for rescue, for resort?
kind regards
Lydia