Should we get rid of the United Nations?

Question

They have got to be the biggest hypocrites on earth; If one country does something they will blast it with all type of sanctions but if another does the same exact thing they don't say anything.

The UN doesnt seam to solve any problems they seem to make stuff worst most of the time.

They can't enforce anything they do, nobody listens to them

Answer 1

I noticed they needed a severe e***a back in the late 50s! And the constipation has only increased in direct proportion to their desire of despotism..

Answer 2

yes, its a Zionist run organization of puppets.

Answer 3

Anarchists instead they will get the job done and according to local conditions. Unless citizens of member countries would like to enforce the rules themselves. Vive Le Revolution.

This would be how people deal with things without The U.N.

Answer 4

Should we get rid of the United Nations?

The answer is so simple. Absolutely not!!! It would be completely silly, utterly impractical, totally ridiculous and entirely wrong to get rid of the United Nations. The answer is no!!!!!!!

It is important that we have this Globalise Intergovernmental Institution which has grown from its early days the League of Nations to form the current day United Nations - it is absolutely significant and paramount importance that this institution remains in centre-stage of today and tomorrow globalise politics due to its United Nations Charter as well as maintaining peace and stability throughout the world and its ever-changing circumstances. It is only organisation that is political that connects 300+ countries worldwide - Do you know any other political organisation that have the same weight and authority like the United Nations. It is probably the most unique global political institution.

The United Nations (UN) is vital and fundamental as well as central to global efforts to solve problems and dilemmas that challenge humanity. Cooperating in this effort are more than 30 affiliated organisations, known together as the UN System. Day in and day out, the UN and its family of organisations work to promote respect for human rights, protect the environment, fight disease – by research and development of vaccination as well as inoculated millions of people against a variety of diseases – Malaria – AIDS – Cholera – Typhoid and reduce poverty. United Nations have and will feed millions of people in crisis situations continuously like droughts (famine), natural disasters like major storms – hurricanes, cyclones or typhoon, tsunami, floodings, earthquakes and other natural disasters -  saving them from hunger and malnourishment, provided medicinal and medical care to millions of people, provided education and schooling to millions to help them access paid work and better health care, monitored elections and brought in accuracies and corruption in elections to light, helped preserve precious and valuable cultural treasures. Also protect world heritage sites under the eye of United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) – one of the United Nations Agency. Also the United Nations agencies define the standards and benchmarks for safe and efficient air travel and help improve telecommunications and enhance consumer protection. The United Nations leads the international campaigns against drug trafficking and terrorism. Throughout the world, the UN and its agencies assist refugees, set up programmes to clear landmines, help to expand food production and lead the fight against AIDS through World Health Organisation (WHO).

I also agree that the vetoes powers of the major powers or axis powers – permanents members of Security Council – China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and lastly United States of America needs to change drastically, efficiently as well as a degree fluency and based it upon a wider democratic process of countries within the United Nations and a wider structure of countries within the Security Council – not the permanent members holding the moral authority but based the moral decision on peace and stability. I thoroughly understand why they have a structure of five permanent members – this basically ensures that we do not have a global war or world war – a global safety net mechanism – also preventing regional instability no matter where in the world – whether it is in Asia to Europe to South America for example. I also fully agree that the United Nations needs some organisational structural reforming to keep up with the world changes and needs to incorporate the Developing Nations and some other Developed Nations like Germany and Japan as Developed Nations and India, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Malaysia as Developing Nations to have a greater say of shaping the world. Basically the United Nations needs some revitalisation, structural reforms and cutting down the red tape diplomacy and gets things down but however we need some degree United Nations bureaucracy preventing mistakes like the war on Iraq on the basis of Weapons of Mass Destructions (WMDs) which they never found at all to this very day. I am also very glad that the United Nations did not give a United Nations Mandate to go to war in the first place on the basis of peace and stability therefore I have concluded it is good to have some United Nations Bureaucracy to preventing illegal war in my opinion under International Law and International Justice. But however the veto power needs to be given out equally to other nations making it fair for everyone whether nations agree or disagree on a particular resolution or making everyday tough decision on independence of a country like Kosovo for example. Please also remember that a World Civilisation Society is not easy at all because we are heading towards a Global Advanced Citizenship which needs a lot of patience, time and considerable global adjustments which is not easy at all but everything will takes time. Getting rid of Saddam Hussein is a good thing because he did some unjustifiable acts to the Kurdish people of Iraq by gassing them to death but however I think suitable alternative methods would be most advisable and appropriate like a internal revolution or a coup d’etat in the country where the Iraqi people will overthrown his reign in power or dictatorial power like they did in many other countries throughout the world and probably the number of innocent Iraqi deaths would be less greater than a war. Please also note that Global Transparency on tough decision process for the people of the world is highly essential for the United Nations to be effective Intergovernmental Organisation in the future.  

The United Nations history is quite complex and took some time to be form at first but on January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 countries at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations supporting, approving and backing the Atlantic Charter, vowing and promising to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace – a unified peace and unified stability. At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden agreed to draw up a declaration that incorporated a call for "a general international organisation, based on the principle sovereign equality of all nations." An agreed declaration was issued after a Foreign Ministers Conference in Moscow in October 1943. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, in November 1943, he proposed an international organisation comprising an assembly of all member states and a 10-member executive committee to discuss social and economic issues. The United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and China would enforce peace as "the four policemen." Meanwhile Allied representatives founded a set of task-oriented organisations: the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) (May 1943), the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (November 1943), the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (April 1944), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (July 1944), and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) (November 1944).

U.S., British, Soviet, and Chinese representatives met at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington in August and September 1944 to draft the charter of a post-war international organisation based on the principle of collective security. They recommended a General Assembly of all member states and a Security Council consisting of the Big Four plus six members chosen by the Assembly. Voting procedures and the veto power of permanent members of the Security Council were finalised at the Yalta Conference in 1945 when Roosevelt and Stalin agreed that the veto would not prevent discussions by the Security Council. Roosevelt agreed to General Assembly membership for Ukraine and Byelorussia while reserving the right, which was never exercised, to seek two more votes for the United States.

Representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco April-June 1945 to complete the Charter of the United Nations – the formation of the United Nations. In addition to the General Assembly of all member states and a Security Council of 5 permanent and 6 non-permanent members, the Charter provided for an 18-member Economic and Social Council, an International Court of Justice, a Trusteeship Council to oversee certain colonial territories, and a Secretariat under a Secretary General. The Roosevelt administration strove to avoid Woodrow Wilson's mistakes in selling the League of Nations to the Senate. It sought bipartisan support and in September 1943 the Republican Party endorsed U.S. participation in a post-war international organisation, after which both houses of Congress overwhelmingly endorsed participation. Roosevelt also sought to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars. The Senate approved the United Nations Charter on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2. The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945, after 29 nations had ratified the Charter.

The United Nations Charter - The Preamble section is probably the most universal charter and has universal values that connect everyone on the planet from various ethnic to racial to religious to national to sectarian groups. This should not be forgotten at all.

The Preamble section of the United Nations Charter:

In the Preamble to the United Nations Charter, the peoples of the United Nations declare their determination "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundam

Answer 5

I think the UN could do with an overhaul.

For starters, the US, Britain, France, Russia and China could stop lording over it with their veto powers.

THAT is why nothing gets done or only one country gets screwed over while the other does not. The diverging interests of these 5 powers on any issue just asks for vetos to be tossed around. All of the problems can be traced to the veto holders: the Indonesians can engage in ethnic cleansing because the Russians veto sanctions against them, China's trade interests with Zimbabwe prevent things going on down there (at least not on a large scale). As for enforcing their orders, their weapon is alienation by turning most of the world against a violator but then that again falls victim to the veto system.

If the 5 veto powers accepted enough is enough, then by popular vote things would probably progress. Unfortunately in order to remove veto powers, the veto holders have to vote to remove it and somehow I can just see all 5 vetoing that request. Probably the only thing they will ever agree on....

Answer 6

Wow, you are so wrong.

Individual UN agencies, such as UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP, UNHCR, WHO, WFP, and UNESCO, have many successes to their names: they've fed millions of people in crisis situations, saving them from starvation, vaccinated millions of people against a variety of diseases, provided medical care to millions of people, provided education to millions to help them access paid work and better health care, monitored elections and brought in accuracies and corruption in elections to light, helped preserve precious cultural treasures, and on and on. Visit the web sites of these and other individual UN agencies to see some of these successes (there are certainly too many to name here). They've brought many critical issues and crisis situations to the attention of the world, mobilizing further action by individual governments, NGOs, communities of faith (churches, mosques and temples), universities, and on and on.

The UN General Assembly successes? I couldn't name even one. They discuss a lot.

The UN Security Council? They certainly could claim to have help to prevent South Korea from falling to communism, and helping to pressure South Africa to abandon apartheid (through arms embargo). Following the six-day war in 1967, the Security Council adopted resolution 242 (1967), as the basis for achieving peace in the Middle East.

UN Peacekeeping missions are staffed entirely by the militaries of various participating countries, and while under a UN Security Council mandate and invitation of whatever country they are in to be there, they remain entirely under the command of their own countries; the success or failure of those missions has to do with the individual countries providing troops and little, if anything, to do with a UN affiliation. Since 1948 there have been 63 UN peacekeeping operations; 17 are currently under way. Thus far, close to 130 nations have contributed personnel at various times; 119 are currently providing peacekeepers. As of September 30, 2007, there were 17 peacekeeping operations underway with a total of 82,978 personnel. The top contributors of military and civilian personnel to missions as of March 2007 were Pakistan (10,173), Bangladesh (9,675), India (9,471), and Nepal (3,628).

The present-day success of post-conflict Liberia could most definitely be attributable to various UN-related efforts, as well as various other factors, including an all-female peace-keeping force from India. The birth of one of the world's most recent nations -- East Timor -- and the success of its fledgling government are another success that various UN entities can take credit for being a part of.

Answer 7

Yes, because it is not a conglomeration of allies, and can therefore never accomplish anything of value.  It is, as stated above, a waste of resources.

Answer 8

No the UN is vital in keeping internation peace. However it does need to go through some major reforms. The system of the P5 or Permanent 5 members of ther security council with their veto power needs to be fixed. It essentially puts these nations at a point to do whatever they want. I understand they're there as a safety measure and they're not supposed to be used all the time but what's the safety measure against the safety measure. The UN needs to stay. It just needs to be fixed

Answer 9

Yes, it is a tremendous waste of time and resources.  There is nothing of value accomplished and we are forced to sit and listen as fanatics thumb their nose at us while afforded the stage to do so.

Answer 10

About the Big 5 members of the SC, the veto power has not been used in an extremely long time. The US, UK, France, Russia, and China almost always abstain on a resolution they don't like.

Keep the UN.

Answer 11

Get rid of the U.N.  The author of hunger in nations.