Security Council reform
- Opinion by Natalie Samarasinghe
- • October 27, 2022
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“The United Nations is dead,” said the Catholic Herald in 1947, two years after the UN was founded. Reports of its demise are perennial, but they seem to have reached a crescendo this year, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Opinion by Yasuhiro Ueki
- • April 4, 2022
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Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military attack on Ukraine has not only undermined the basic norms and tenets of the international order based on the United Nations Charter but it has also provoked strategic recalculations of international relations in the…
- Categories: Asia, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Helmut Volger
- • November 30, 2014
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The Security Council is the most important political body of the United Nations. If you conÂsider the council uncommunicative and dominated by the great powers, and if you search for ways to improve its democratic qualities without amending the…
- Categories: BOOKS
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- A. Edward Elmendorf
- • January 19, 2014
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Jan Eliasson has been the deputy secretary-general of the United Nations since July 2012, the second in command after Ban Ki-moon. Eliasson, 73, is a former Swedish foreign minister and was ambassador to the United States twice, among other…
- Categories: Development, Peace and Security
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