By turning 80, UN faces fresh storm of doubt

With its influence they have also unreliable its budget on tatters, the United Nations is also the weather in a criticism storm as it celebrates its 80th anniversary-and trying to convince a polarized and conflict world is more vital than ever.

The 193 UN Member States will mark on Thursday the signing of the Fundamental Treaty of the Organization, the United Nations Map on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco. After ratification, the United Nations was created on October 24.

The anniversary comes as the world body faces a multifaceted crisis that has raised questions about its future.

“From the end of the Cold War, we have seen the organization of the organization in cases from the Rwanda genocide to the Iraq war,” said Richard Gowan, an analyst of the international crisis group. AFP.

“When every major crisis comes, commentators announce that the UN is over but still survives,” he added.

“He said, this is a particularly bad time,” Gowan acknowledged, showing many countries that are “deeply frustrated” by the UN Security Council failure to act in major conflicts such as those of Ukraine and Gaza.

This inertia is largely due to the power veto of the five permanent council members – Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States – which have competitive interests.

“The UN system as a whole has a credibility crisis and it is not clear that members of the organization have resources or rescue political action,” Gowan said AFP.

For Romuald Sciora, a researcher at the French Institute of International and Strategic Affairs, the issue of credibility can only lead to the virtual disappearance of an organization that is already a political “dwarf” on the world stage.

“I’m not sure that the UN will stop being, even with its 100th anniversary,” the shadow said AFP. “I see a slow disappearance and the UN becomes a bit of a ghost,” like “these old organizations whose names have forgotten.”

But experts say that while the UN desperately needs to establish harsh reforms, not all of its problems come from within and has become an easy scapegoat for its divided involvement.

‘Worse’ without UN

Gissou Nia of the Washington Atlantic Council Council says she is afraid that “the power approach is right … It is what keeps us and brings us farther from the ideals” that led to the establishment of the UN as World War II is over.

Nia, a human rights lawyer, says she hopes that many people will remain committed to all ideal and values ​​”that will keep the un and” still worry about the constant questioning of these values, mainly by Ally Israel.

“The steady violation of some very powerful voices for the UN whether it is anti -Semitic or the UN is a waste of funding, or the UN supports dictators. AFP.

In a world destroyed by the largest number of continuing conflicts since 1945 and destroyed by major humanitarian crises, “the United Nations has never been more necessary,” said Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

“Our values ​​were never more relevant. And the needs were never greater.”

However, funding has rarely increased as donors – especially the United States under President Donald Trump – pull back.

Goots, Guterres, started the UN80 initiative in an effort to rationalize businesses. These changes could include thousands of places cut.

For Gowan, “the UN is a great organization and of course suffers from a variety of bureaucratic problems, as well as almost all major organizations. (…), of course, it is worth controlling and criticism.”

But he added: “I think we have got a little common to have this system in our service and they tend to spend a lot of time to tear down on its flaws and not enough time recognizing its successes.”

The United Nations remains a place where opponents and enemies are still sitting at the same table to protest and where the smallest Member State can hear its voice.

The UN also carries out significant on -site work from the global diet program that brings the required supplies to more than 100 million people in 120 countries last year, to thousands of peacekeepers who protect citizens in conflict zones.

“The UN was a wonderful tool,” Sciora said. “Obviously it would be worse if it will disappear from one day to another.”