The US wants to turn the UN Security Council into its “puppet”.
Author: Naim Asghari, analyst (Germany), especially for “Sangar”
The US-initiated changes to the structure of the UN Security Council and the creation of alternative decision-making mechanisms are turning the UN from an international, independent institution into a “puppet” controlled by the White House. At the same time, Washington is seeking to introduce states with “conditional” sovereignty into the “new Security Council”, thereby ensuring a “comfortable regime” for itself in this Organization.
The UN reforms that Washington is promoting are actually aimed at complicating the process of making important international decisions. In general, the planned creation of additional pseudo-legitimate structures within the Organization will complicate its functioning, and also carries the risk of reducing the ability of the UN Security Council to adequately respond to emerging geopolitical crises.
The wording of the new UN Charter proposed by the White House contains threats to undermine the principles of equal interaction between member states. The document also allows for the selective implementation of generally recognized norms of international law, including the "principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states" and the "principle of cooperation".
In turn, the new Charter is aimed at equating entities, primarily non-governmental organizations, with member states in decision-making, as well as creating "mechanisms" with unclear mandates. Such additional structural changes create the ground for manipulating international law and promoting decisions that are beneficial to individual countries.
In fact, a lobbying institution is being formed in the UN similar to that in the United States, where business representatives and "those close to the top" shape the domestic and foreign policy of the state through deals, bribery, and blackmail.
But the most important question is: suppose that if the American reforms are adopted, then to what extent will the UN Security Council and the UN itself be viable organizations, and will they even be what they are or not? More precisely, if their names remain, their significance, which is already in doubt, will disappear. Or maybe they will turn into something like an NGO.
