UN at 76: Achievements, Failures, Challenges and The Need for Reform

Challenges and the need for reform

International law professor Dr Victor Emilion Corzo Aceves told Media Magelang in a Zoom interview on 23 October that the U.N is facing lots of challenges nowadays and the conflicting interests among the organization’s members—especially the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) complicates the effort for reform.

“The United Nations is facing a lot of challenges is going to be a very complex environment that we will be facing in the future. But we have to realize that it is not up to the organization, but it is up to the will of the founding members,” the expert who served as a seasoned diplomat at the Mexico Foreign Ministry stated.

The veto rights were initiated during the negotiation for the creation of the U.N involving the U.S, the U.K and then-Soviet Union at Dumbarton Oaks (August-October 1944) and Yalta (1945).

China joined later and the four countries’ leaders at that time agreed on a consensus principle.