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United Nations 75 years of Multilateralism

Updated: Nov 3, 2021


Founded on the 10๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜‘๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜บ 1920, the ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ ๐ฎ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ' primary purpose is to avoid another outbreak of world war and maintain international peace and security and international cooperation among nations. However, the organization still cannot avoid it. It all started in ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ when ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ง ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ rose to power and was appointed to be the Deutschland chancellor. On the 1๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ 1939, under his leadership, the ๐๐š๐ณ๐ข ๐๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ launched an invasion of Poland, which was essential for Germany to dominate the ๐˜Œ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต. This marks the start of the ๐Ÿ๐ง๐ ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐–๐š๐ซ.


๐˜ž๐˜ข๐˜ณ broke out to the world again and caused ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ to small countriesโ€”Japan invading countries one after another in Asia, Italy allying with Germany and declaring war against Great Britain and France. Many have ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ to end this war, resulting in the ๐‘จ๐’™๐’Š๐’” ๐‘จ๐’๐’๐’Š๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’† of Germany, Italy, and Japan's loss. After the war, the League of Nations ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ its operation as it failed its purpose in preventing another world war.


๐”๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ (๐”๐), founded on 24๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜–๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ 1945, replaced the ๐˜“๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜•๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด and inherited some of the agencies and organizations that the former organization founded. The ๐”๐ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ the League's primary purpose and added more โ€” notably to develop the lives of the poor, overcome hunger, disease, literacy, respect each other's rights and freedom, and be a center for harmonizing the actions to achieve the UN's goals. (๐’๐„๐„: History of the UN | United Nations Seventieth Anniversary)


The ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐–๐š๐ซ happened and the UN was in turmoil. A political dispute between two '๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ', the ๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด and the ๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ, was central to the Cold War. The ๐‘ผ๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐‘ต๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’” ๐‘บ๐’†๐’„๐’–๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐‘ช๐’๐’–๐’๐’„๐’Š๐’ (๐‘ผ๐‘ต๐‘บ๐‘ช) could not function because the mentioned states were permanent members who held ๐’—๐’†๐’•๐’ ๐’‘๐’๐’˜๐’†๐’“๐’”.


The Cold War was not the only time when the world organization has not played any significant role, despite facing the most dangerous threats to world peace. The world organization also did not take any action during the 1962 ๐‘ช๐’–๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ด๐’Š๐’”๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’† ๐‘ช๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’Š๐’” and was at a stalemate in the ๐•๐ข๐ž๐ญ๐ง๐š๐ฆ ๐–๐š๐ซ.(๐’๐„๐„:Constitutional Rights Foundation (crf-usa.org))


The ๐”๐ also created new programs and agencies in aiding the economies of third-world countries. In talks of human rights, the world organization released a resolution condemning racist ๐’‚๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’Š๐’… policies of South Africa and called out the members to end their economic and military relations with the country. However, the ๐”๐ disregarded ๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’๐’„๐’Š๐’…๐’† ๐’Š๐’๐’„๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’๐’•๐’” that took place in several African countries, which also targeted black people.


After the ๐—–๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐—ฟ, the United Nations learned its lesson and mobilized the UNSC to be decisive. When Iraq invaded Kuwait (๐’๐„๐„: Iraq invades Kuwait - HISTORY), the Security Council firmly upheld its authority. The council passed dozens of resolutions against ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’…๐’…๐’‚๐’Ž ๐‘ฏ๐’–๐’”๐’”๐’†๐’Š๐’'๐’” ๐’„๐’“๐’Š๐’Ž๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‘๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’†. They even released an ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ to Iraq to withdraw their troops or confront the multinational military force authorized by the ๐”๐.


The ๐‘ผ๐‘ต ๐‘ท๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’Œ๐’†๐’†๐’‘๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘ญ๐’๐’“๐’„๐’†โ€™๐’” ๐’Ž๐’Š๐’”๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’ in Bosnia and Somalia was ineffective. In 1992, UN Peacekeepers were ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด in Bosnia, as the ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž ๐‡๐ž๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ could not stop the violence against civilians. They were only assigned to protect the civilian food convoys and themselves. While in Somalia, 24 ๐‘ท๐’‚๐’Œ๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’Š ๐’‘๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’Œ๐’†๐’†๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’” were ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ in 1993, leading to their deaths. More incidents happened, including the death of 18 ๐‘จ๐’Ž๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’”๐’๐’๐’…๐’Š๐’†๐’“๐’”. This incident led the ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™ข๐™š๐™ง ๐™๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š๐™™ ๐™Ž๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™จ ๐™ค๐™› ๐˜ผ๐™ข๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™˜๐™– ๐™‹๐™ง๐™š๐™จ๐™ž๐™™๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ, ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐‚๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ง, to withdraw their troops that hurt the peacekeeping mission of the UN.


After the dissolution of the๐˜๐ฎ๐ ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ฏ ๐…๐ž๐๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง in 1992, the ๐๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐š๐ง ๐๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š had turned into a hotbed of civil unrest caused by the ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ of the Muslims and border wars. The ๐”๐ intervened and helped Kosovo to build its government, including legitimate authority and capacity.


Today, 24๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜–๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ, the ๐”๐ comes to its ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ“๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ of service to the world. The world organization commemorates its 75๐’•๐’‰ ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’”๐’‚๐’“๐’š with the theme, "๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ญ๐’–๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’† ๐‘พ๐’† ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’๐’•, ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ผ๐‘ต ๐‘พ๐’† ๐‘ต๐’†๐’†๐’…: ๐‘น๐’†๐’‚๐’‡๐’‡๐’Š๐’“๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐‘ช๐’๐’๐’๐’†๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’Š๐’•๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’•๐’ ๐‘ด๐’–๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’Ž." They laid out 12 ๐’„๐’๐’๐’„๐’Š๐’”๐’† ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’Š๐’•๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’” to ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ž โ€”๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต, ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ธ, ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต, ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ, ๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜•๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด, ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฑ๐˜ด, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ, ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ. The world leaders also said that the commemoration is not to celebrate, as what is happening in the world is not what the founders envisioned ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ“ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ ๐จ (๐’๐„๐„:High-level Meeting to Commemorate the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the United Nations | United Nations)

The world is plagued with ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜บ, ๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ, ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฎ, ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ โ€” and now, the ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ of the virus named ๐‚๐Ž๐•๐ˆ๐ƒ-๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—. Countries suffer from ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ, ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด. People are suffering from ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜น๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ.

"๐‘ด๐’–๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’Ž ๐’Š๐’” ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’‚๐’ ๐’๐’‘๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’, ๐’ƒ๐’–๐’• ๐’‚ ๐’๐’†๐’„๐’†๐’”๐’”๐’Š๐’•๐’š," is what ๐‘ผ๐‘ต๐‘ฎ๐‘จ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐•๐จ๐ฅ๐ค๐š๐ง ๐๐จ๐ณ๐ค๐ข๐ซ asserted. The world is changing unimaginably and the UN needs the members' support to ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ and ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ต to what the world demands, that the world organization will be more ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ.


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