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Former French Envoy : UN apparatus in need of deep reforms
Paris, Oct 2, IRNA – Former French Ambassador to Tehran Francoise Nicole said here Friday that deep reforms are needed in the UN apparatus, particularly in the UN Security Council. to preserve power balance in the world.
In an exclusive interview with IRNA, the veteran politician added, “The structure of the UNSC must be thoroughly reformed so that the council would be capable of keeping account of the new world developments in its calculations, including addition of new permanent members to the Security Council.”
Nicole further emphasized, “This is a point whose necessity is understood globally.”
Focusing on the unilaterally adopted US decisions for the world affairs and for being put under a big question mark of the UN role, such as the case in invading Iraq in 2003, the French diplomat said, “The so called preemptive US moves are illegitimate in accordance with the international laws, but a number of countries’ yielded to the US decision that year and invaded Iraq collectively that year.”
He said that justifying the invasion against Iraq resorting to such logic is horrible, arguing, “This logic can pave the path for justifying any wayward move by any government anywhere in the world.”
Nicole added, “Legitimate self defense is recognized in the Charter of the United Nations… the UN has predicted unilateral moves, that can be launched by a single country, or by a group of countries, in confrontation with an invasion, and for instance we can refer to
Iran’s defense of its soil when confronted with Saddam’s military invasion, or the allied forces invasion into Iraq after Saddam occupied Kuwait, both of which are legitimate defense according to the UN regulations. But the US preemptive invasion is a dangerous concept.”
Nicole said, “Unfortunately the entire reform plans for the UN have thus far faced defeat due to lack of consensus among member states.”
Referring to the roles of the countries in various parts of the world at the UN Security Council, for instance African countries, he said, “One of the problems is that the countries in that continent have so far not agreed which one of them should have a permanent seat at the UNSC, which is why this project would lead nowhere.”
Considering the United States the most powerful country in the world, Nicole says, “Yet, Washington’s power has decreased compared to 1945.”
He says, “At that time the US national production comprise 50% of the world economy and America was the only county that had the atomic bomb, but today despite their entire power, the Americans are incapable of governing the entire global developments all by themselves, which is why there is a lot of room for negotiations and diplomacy at the international scene today.”
The veteran French diplomat added, “We know that reforms at the UNSC, either in terms of increasing its members, or in terms of improving its performance so as to gain a balance of power in the world is very difficult presently.”
Nicole says that unfortunately there is not much that the UN can do under the current conditions, arguing, “We should not have great expectations from that world body, and we should therefore suffice that it should lead better the elements that can cause major wars in the world, which is by itself a great task.”
Regarding strategies to adopt to help the UN to reach its deserved status despite the entire deficiencies in its apparatus in order to create a better world to live at, he says, “The main deficiency of the UN presently is the lack of trust of the world nations in it.”
He added, “The UN has never been the place where the entire important decisions are made there.”
He added, “The UN has furthermore never managed to solve the problems related to the cold war, or the Middle East crisis etc., and today, too most countries are not willing to trust the UN with giving it even a minor part of their legitimate rights, such as supervision in elections, while such things are part and parcel in deficiency of such a major world body.”/end
In an exclusive interview with IRNA, the veteran politician added, “The structure of the UNSC must be thoroughly reformed so that the council would be capable of keeping account of the new world developments in its calculations, including addition of new permanent members to the Security Council.”
Nicole further emphasized, “This is a point whose necessity is understood globally.”
Focusing on the unilaterally adopted US decisions for the world affairs and for being put under a big question mark of the UN role, such as the case in invading Iraq in 2003, the French diplomat said, “The so called preemptive US moves are illegitimate in accordance with the international laws, but a number of countries’ yielded to the US decision that year and invaded Iraq collectively that year.”
He said that justifying the invasion against Iraq resorting to such logic is horrible, arguing, “This logic can pave the path for justifying any wayward move by any government anywhere in the world.”
Nicole added, “Legitimate self defense is recognized in the Charter of the United Nations… the UN has predicted unilateral moves, that can be launched by a single country, or by a group of countries, in confrontation with an invasion, and for instance we can refer to
Iran’s defense of its soil when confronted with Saddam’s military invasion, or the allied forces invasion into Iraq after Saddam occupied Kuwait, both of which are legitimate defense according to the UN regulations. But the US preemptive invasion is a dangerous concept.”
Nicole said, “Unfortunately the entire reform plans for the UN have thus far faced defeat due to lack of consensus among member states.”
Referring to the roles of the countries in various parts of the world at the UN Security Council, for instance African countries, he said, “One of the problems is that the countries in that continent have so far not agreed which one of them should have a permanent seat at the UNSC, which is why this project would lead nowhere.”
Considering the United States the most powerful country in the world, Nicole says, “Yet, Washington’s power has decreased compared to 1945.”
He says, “At that time the US national production comprise 50% of the world economy and America was the only county that had the atomic bomb, but today despite their entire power, the Americans are incapable of governing the entire global developments all by themselves, which is why there is a lot of room for negotiations and diplomacy at the international scene today.”
The veteran French diplomat added, “We know that reforms at the UNSC, either in terms of increasing its members, or in terms of improving its performance so as to gain a balance of power in the world is very difficult presently.”
Nicole says that unfortunately there is not much that the UN can do under the current conditions, arguing, “We should not have great expectations from that world body, and we should therefore suffice that it should lead better the elements that can cause major wars in the world, which is by itself a great task.”
Regarding strategies to adopt to help the UN to reach its deserved status despite the entire deficiencies in its apparatus in order to create a better world to live at, he says, “The main deficiency of the UN presently is the lack of trust of the world nations in it.”
He added, “The UN has never been the place where the entire important decisions are made there.”
He added, “The UN has furthermore never managed to solve the problems related to the cold war, or the Middle East crisis etc., and today, too most countries are not willing to trust the UN with giving it even a minor part of their legitimate rights, such as supervision in elections, while such things are part and parcel in deficiency of such a major world body.”/end
