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UN 'ill-equipped' to solve world issues
 [Iran Press] Time is ripe for a reform in the UN Security Council, an American expert on UN affairs says, stressing that the organization is "ill-equipped" to solve global issues. "There has to be a place where business is not as usual; where a small number of countries make decisions," Thomas G. Weiss told Press TV on Thursday. I think it was Robert Heinlein who described a committee as the only creature with 18 stomaches and no brain... He voiced concerns over the current UN system, which gives a veto power to a small number of countries -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. "Six decades after its establishment, the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society and its system-related agencies and programs are perpetually in crisis," said Weiss, who is the presidential professor of political science at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He further stressed that no UN institution should be based on the past. "While World War I and II gave rise to the groundbreaking efforts at organizations in 1919 and 1945, the UN today seems ill-equipped to deal with modern challenges to world order." Posted by: Fred 2010-09-03 |
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