According to UN General Assembly President Csiba Korosi, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, which will complete one year next month, has shown that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is unable to address issues arising from a permanent member with veto powers.
Korosi met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Delhi on Monday where all these issues were discussed along with the burning issue of reforming the multilateral system.
“A permanent member who has veto power is one who is attacking his neighbour. This has created a situation that the Security Council is unable to address the issue. The Security Council has failed to take any action since the start of the war in Ukraine. The UNGA President said at an event organized by the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), “Decision on war in Ukraine. So this is an absurd situation, which shows the laxity of the Security Council.
Korosi also said, “If millions of people were expecting an outcome from the UN so that the war is not repeated, they are disappointed.”
Addressing the media later in the day, the UNGA president said that when the United Nations was created, the permanent members, or P-5 – the US, the UK, China, France and Russia – were given veto power to encourage member states to can be done and not to “stall” the processes.
Highlighting the need to reform the UNSC, the Hungarian diplomat said the body deals with issues that were prevalent in 1945 and 1946, when the world was coming out of World War II.
“A lot has changed since then. The world economy has changed. The balance of power has changed… We need to reform the Council. Is there a time limit? No. Does it have an agreement text? No he is not Does it have a revival process at work? Not really,” he quipped.
He said that while reforming the UNSC “intellectually” would not be difficult, it could not be done by member states as they are “divided”. “We must face facts: it is not 1945 anymore,” he said.
“Our institutions cannot hope to overcome today’s challenges when they operate within the framework of tomorrow. The need for UN Security Council reform was raised directly by more than a third of world leaders during the opening of the General Assembly last September.”
He said it was a “clear political signal…there is a process in the United Nations to achieve this. But its results leave much to be desired”.
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