The United Nations protection Council

We hear a lot about the United Nations on the television news. But what is its purpose and how does it work?

The United Nations (Un) was set up by the Un charter which was signed in San Francisco in 1945. Its aim is to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, communal progress, human ownership and the achievement of world peace. The purpose of the protection Council is to enunciate peace and protection in the world. There are currently 192 Member States of the United Nations.

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There is a long standing joke about attractiveness queens wanting to "work with children and perform world peace". This is in fact the stated aim of the United Nations. Countries are supposed to work together within a framework to avoid war and to try and decide conflict between nations. The most famous irregularity to this in new years is the decision of George W. Bush and Tony Blair to invade Iraq after 9/11. I personally disagreed with this activity because it had not been sanctioned by the protection Council.

One of the peculiarities of the Un protection Council is that it retains 5 permanent Member States, namely China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. These are some of the most suited nations on earth although the inclusion of France is possibly a tiny surprising. The current non-permanent members are Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Turkey and Uganda. Their 2 year term will be up on 1st January 2011.

From 1st January 2011 the non permanent Member States will consist of the world's emerging powers, Russia, China, Brazil, India, South Africa and Germany. "It is a suited configuration, the strongest group of global stakeholders ever assembled on the [Security] Council" agreeing to Patsy Smyth in the Irish Times Newspaper on 16th October 2010. He quotes "It should give a symbolic impulse to the case for reform of a body that as Germany's foreign clergyman Guido Westerwelle puts it "reflects the world's power architecture after the Second World War. "It is not standard that two continents, like Africa and Latin America, do not have permanent seats on the Un protection Council. Asia too... Is underrepresented."

The protection Council is the only one of the existing 5 Un Bodies that can issue binding decisions. They are referred to as protection Council Resolutions. The 5 permanent Members can veto over substance, but not over procedural resolutions for example they do not have the power to stop a debate.

Germany has joined military with India, Japan and Brazil to recommend the addition of six permanent seats to the protection Council without the power of veto and a additional four non-permanent seats. Other countries like South Africa, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Eu and Japan which also aspire to permanent status are proposing other combinations of allocations.

The political dynamic of the new protection Council will be interesting. Brazil, India and South Africa have shown themselves unwilling in new years to back Us led consensus such as Iran's nuclear threat or human rights. South Africa opposed independence for Kosovo (1996-1998) because it has a fear of secessionist movements in its own country. Likely issues in the next 2 years are sanctions to curb human ownership abuses in Sudan, Myanmar and Zimbabwe or to block North Korea's nuclear programme. Let us hope that the protection Council acts responsibly no matter what its composition.

The United Nations protection Council

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