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lunedì 19 ottobre 2015

The new structure of the Security Council calls for a review of the rules of the United Nations

The new structure of the United Nations Security Council, should be elected as temporary members countries of Japan, Ukraine, Senegal, Uruguay and Egypt, which should take the place of the outgoing members Jordan, Chad, Nigeria, Lithuania and Chile; other non-permanent members in office are Jordan, Chad, Nigeria, Lithuania and Chile, to which must be added the permanent and veto-wielding United States, France, Russia, China, United Kingdom. In the new composition of the Security Council we note the presence of both countries divided by deep reasons of contrast, if not outright conflict, factors that can paralyze the already limited the maximum collegiate body of the United Nations. The presence within the same body of Russia and Ukraine, countries deeply divided by a conflict always latent, also a source of great friction between Moscow and Washington, presumes large contrasts in the decisions to be taken, with contrasts that will be reflected on the most different. Even the simultaneous presence at the table of China and Japan, divided on the issue of sovereignty of several islands, which is compounded by increasingly nationalistic positions of Tokyo, which clash with the expansionist ambitions of Beijing, will undoubtedly help to find common understandings on international issues. The presence of Japan, directly interested in the development of the nuclear issue of North Korea, raises important questions about the real objectivity in handling issues with Pyongyang. The presence of a state like Egypt, ruled by an authoritarian military regime raises serious questions about the decisions that the Council may take, they should be framed within democratic limits well defined. Despite serious doubts about the actual functionality of the next Council, this new composition can range from reflections to achieve a radical reform of the only world body, which although often ineffective, is the only form that tries to give the world a government global. If already in the post-war architecture and Policy that supports the United Nations could feed some doubt about its real legitimacy, even to the end of its operation, the current political and economic conditions, which govern the equilibrium of the world, are so changed by justify a major overhaul of the rules governing the only supranational world. The present case, where the small number of countries, which, in fact, should govern and regulate international disputes, where often this term mean real bloody conflicts and dangerous for the world balance, there are states in strong conflict It should not occur for no further slow the decisions of a body that often can not find any synthesis and is therefore useless for the purpose for which it was created. The essential characteristics of which such a body should be provided should be the speed of decision and the ability to apply These decisions, having in his possession instruments binding able to impose the measures taken. The present moment has been well defined by the highest authority of the Catholic Pope Francis, like the one where you are in a third world war split, ie made up of many conflicts capable, potentially, to unleash a large-scale confrontation. Indeed, this possibility is anything but remote and tragically likely to come true, including in a period where he resumed nuclear proliferation and that, therefore, puts even more at risk global stability. In the press someone has invoked the need for a global police able to stop conflicts to give way to diplomacy to intervene more calmly to achieve a final result more stable. This idea is far from absurd, especially in a time when the role of world policeman held by the US since the fall of communism, appears increasingly in crisis, due to the presence of an increasingly multi-polar, ie with international actors, that they are not always recognized sovereign states, capable of breaking what should be the pre-established rules of international law. This scenario highlights the need for reform of the United Nations, which have already been widely requested, with deep revisions of anachronistic institutions such as the veto power reserved only to the five permanent members, no longer acceptable in the current context of globalization. If, the fact remains a fact, that we are very far from the creation of a world body capable of resolving any disputes between the states, which must still be a goal to achieve in the long run, it would be important to create the conditions to prevent humanitarian tragedies like famine, the protracted conflict, which the Syrian case is the latest example and striking and the growth of terrorism that is emerging worldwide. A major redistribution of power allocated to the states on the basis of democratic requirements to guarantee civil rights, should be the starting point to ensure the legitimacy to seek the resolution of the major cases of concern worldwide, with the presence of rules can ensure effective job rotation of world government, supported by the availability of an autonomous force able to intervene quickly and effectively to maintain peace. This project can be even utopian, but the discussion must start to get at least close soon.

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