70 years ago, San Francisco became the cradle of a global change, where representatives of 50 countries gathered to develop and sign the Charter of the United Nations, pledging to work together to achieve peace, prosperity and respect for human rights. The status of the official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Russian, and the organization provides a platform where representatives of each country can express their views. The idea is that the UN should be a mechanism by which governments of different countries find common ground and work together to solve problems. However, experts believe that from the state where the UN Charter was signed 70 years ago, the threat of destruction is coming.
The Director of the Caspian Cooperation Institute, the vice chairman of the Editorial Board of Vestnik Kavkaza, Sergei Mikheyev noted that the United Nations was created on the principle of the sovereign equality of states, but "sovereign equality even then did not bother much either the Americans or even us [USSR, ed]. In fact, the UN has issued a postwar world. And the composition of the Security Council shows this."
The expert is convinced that both Washington and Moscow had tried to use the UN for their own purposes, but since then the situation in the world changed: "The Americans have become the most powerful state in the world, and together with their allies they are in a unique position when they are dealing with all countries on this planet, and no one is dealing with them, allowing them to perform geopolitical experiments in the world."
In this situation, Mikheyev is sure, the US is trying to change the legal registration and the balance of forces in the world. "They want to use the United Nations for their own purposes, or at least to make it so that the UN does not disturb them," the expert said.
As for Russia, according to Mikheyev, the country fights for the rule of international law, because it has become weaker and has fewer allies, it has become smaller, and the United Nations in its present form reinforces the situation when Moscow some time ago was at the height of its power. "We won’t be able to do it for a long time, if we are weak in economic and military terms. Anyway, the architecture is altered no matter how much we fight for international law, for the laws. Gradually, this situation will define the real balance of forces. Therefore, our economic strength, our military strength, our independent foreign policy will determine the success of our efforts in the struggle for international law. If we are strong enough, if we will have enough allies, then our struggle for the supremacy of international law will be more successful," Mikheyev concludes.
