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March 13, 2006
The UN Security Council: Same As It Ever Was
The New Editor notes an AP story (emphases mine):
Russia and China have rejected proposals from the United States and other veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council for a statement demanding that Iran clear up suspicions about its nuclear program, diplomats said Monday.The dispute raises the threat of an impasse in the Security Council and means that the U.S., Britain and France may not get their wish for strong action by the powerful U.N. body.
An impasse in the "powerful" Security Council caused by Russia and China? You don't say.
The structure of the UN Security Council has never fit the geo-political realities of the world it is supposed to help regulate. It was barely functional in 1950, when UN action to defend South Korea against Communist aggression was passed only because the Soviet Union was absent from the Security Council (the USSR was protesting the exclusion of the People's Republic of China from the UN).
There have been few bright spots ever since.
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