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📆 ANNOUNCEMENT: On June 26 at 4:00 pm Moscow Time, the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion on the place and role of the UN in the changing world order, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco.

The world has changed a lot in the past 78 years. Amid the present crisis of the international order, the countries of the West are striving to change the global balance of power, using for this purpose their dominance in the apparatus of international organisations, including the UN. There are calls from the United States for a reform of the Security Council.

It is impossible to deny that the UN continues to be a unique organisation, the largest platform for discussing global challenges and resolving crises. Nevertheless, the question of its effectiveness and compliance with the realities of the 21st century is increasingly under discussion. The on-going crisis in Europe and Russia's special military operation in Ukraine have exposed the problem of the bloc’s structure within the framework of the UN General Assembly, the speed of the Organisation's response to challenges and its impartiality. Against this background, attempts are being made to replace the UN platform ad hoc with coalitions, and international law with the so-called “rules-based order.”

❓How effectively does the United Nations respond to challenges and threats?
❓What is its fate in the changing world order?
❓Will the debate on Security Council reform move forward?
❓What is the role of Russia as a founding country in this process?

Participants of the discussion will try to answer these and other questions.

🎙 Speakers:

🇿🇦 Mikatekiso Kubayi, Researcher, Institute for Global Dialogue associated with UNISA, Research Fellow, Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg

🇮🇳 Asoke Kumar Mukerji, Permanent Representative of India to the UN (2013-2014), Honorary Fellow, Vivekananda  International Foundation (India)

🇷🇺🇺🇳 Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations and the UN Security Council @russiaun

🇹🇷 Hasan Ünal, Professor, Maltepe University, Istanbul

Moderator:

🗣 Andrey Sushentsov, programme director of the Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-to-discuss-the-place-and-role-of-the-un-in-the-changing-world-order/

Working languages: Russian, English.

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A link to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, Twitter, Telegram and Dzen.

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🇺🇳 The UN system is in crisis. The main reason for this is the general loss of the West's ability to bolster its institutional capabilities with the resources needed for unchallenged global leadership. 

The recently concluded High-Level Week within the framework of the 78th UN General Assembly was accompanied by growing discussions about the need to reform this organisation. First of all, we are talking about the future of its highest body - the Security Council (UNSC), whose five permanent members (Great Britain, China, Russia, the USA and France) have exclusive rights in the field of international security.

The United Nations is the institutional embodiment of the West's desire to preserve the international order in which it has played a leading role for more than 500 years. That is why it is fundamentally important for the United States and Europe to maintain their majority in the Security Council. This is what ultimately makes it possible to effectively control the working bodies of the UN. First of all, the secretariat of this most important international organisation.

Now the UN remains the last “pillar” of a relatively stable world order and, at the same time, ensures the formal participation of almost all countries of the world in the discussion of the global agenda. In other words, the UN as we know it is the product of a compromise in which the West maintains its dominance and everyone else does not feel a complete injustice is being done to their basic interests. 

Russia and especially China are feeling increasingly confident and are actually rejecting the UN-centred common order as an instrument of Western dominance. The Western countries themselves are trying to counterattack in response, and are raising the issue of reforming the Security Council, including new permanent members.

Timofei Bordachev writes on possibility of the reform of the United Nations.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/reforming-the-un-possibility-and-necessity-/

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