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QUESTION| Discuss the purposes and principles governing United Nations. What reforms, if any, do you suggest for the UN system?
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The purpose and principle of the Charter of the United Nations is the guiding light of the UN framework. Article 1 and 2 states the Purpose and Principles of the UN respectively. The Purpose are as follows:
1. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples and to take measures to strengthen universal peace.
2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.
3. To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms.
4. To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.
The Principles are like pathway towards achieving the goals set out in the purpose of the UN. They are as follows:
1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.
2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.
3. All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means with our endangering international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.
4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.
5. All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action.
6. The Organization shall ensure that non states members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles for the maintenance of international peace and security.
7. Interference in the internal affairs of the State is prohibited. This principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter Vll.
The UN as a system got entangled in the hands of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and the United States by its huge financial contribution controls the important UN bodies in its own interest and not in the interest of the people. Thus, UN as a framework to promote and protect human rights fails miserable due to the vested interest. Moreover, the permanent members do not represent the geographical representation of all people but the powerful countries at the end of the world war II. Thus, the initial reform at the UN must be on financial budget to loosen the tight grip of western world and then to reform the power centre of the United Nations i.e. either remove the veto power or give veto powers to other countries which represents the changed world legal order.