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Ban Ki-Moon and the charade of transparency

UN propagandists claim that the selection process to name the next secretary general, who will take office before the inauguration of the next U.S. president, will be the most transparent in the history of the organization, which was founded in 1945. But on close examination, the security council recommends a new secretary general based on "a private meeting." This means that the politics and diplomacy that determine who becomes the next leader of the institution, and the roles of NGOs...

12.03.2016

Bundeswehr in Syria – Back to Yugoslavian Scenario?

... and a US-led coalition aimed at combating terrorist organization Islamic State (outlawed in Russia), Article 51 of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations Organization, ensuring the right to individual and collective self-defense, and also UN Security Council Resolutions 2170 , 2199 and 2249 , calling for anti-IS actions, are cited. Such a spontaneous measure of the German Government in the absence of the UNSC’s mandate for military intervention into Syria or the relevant official ...

07.12.2015

The United Nations’ legitimacy is unique

... colleagues in the Commonwealth of Independent States, which was only taking shape at that time, fully supported us in this respect. We were also fully backed by the members of the international community. Therefore, our continued permanent membership in the UN Security Council means that Russia is perceived by all states as a founding member of the UN. The 70th anniversary is inseparably linked with the lessons that we derived from WWII and with the efforts of the majority of countries to prevent the rebirth ...

14.09.2015

French Chicanery at the United Nations

With the 70th anniversary of the United Nations celebrated this fall, France has made a big splash by proposing limiting the right of veto exercised by the permanent members of the UN Security Council, i.e. by Russia, China, United Kingdom, the United States and France. But these ostensibly good intentions of preventing crimes against humanity appear to be an attempt to pave the way for a UNSC blessing of unrestricted enforcement ...

26.06.2015

BRICS: Union of Reformers and National Interests

... countries. At the same time, national interests are for the most part different from the general interests of the group, and rarely coincide. Two disagreements hamper the development of the BRICS group at the global and national levels. 1) Reform of the UN Security Council (the global level) : The general financial structures of the BRICS countries guarantee stability against the background of increasing instability. Given their political and economic positions, India and Brazil do not feel that the ...

24.06.2015

UN Syria Resolution – Proof of Russian Diplomats’ Professionalism

Interview On the night of September 28, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Syria. Irina Zvyagelskaya , Professor of Oriental Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the RF MFA (MGIMO) and senior researcher at the Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies, talks ...

04.10.2013
 

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