Introduction
The UNO was created in 1945 or maintaining peace on the Earth, as its predecessor – the League of Nations failed in accomplishing this task. Pacta sunt servanda is the principle, which is the basis of any statute, treaty or convention, thus, every UN member should observe the rule of avoiding using the force, or a threat of force, let alone the unilateral use of force. The conflicts should be solved by the means of diplomacy and negotiations.
Discussion
Since the Cold War terminated with the loss of socialistic, the researchers started rising the issue of UN relevance in their works. They claimed that there should be no conflicts, as the world is no longer bipolar. Nevertheless, the world became multi-polar, and the origins of the conflicts transformed. One of such assaults was the ethnic conflict in Kosovo. The US and NATO forces started bombing the territory of Republic of Yugoslavia without UN Security Council resolution. Originally, these actions are regarded as the direct violation of the world order and should be subjected to processing in International Military Tribunal.
As The Nation (2003) states, the main argument of the USA on the issues of UN relevance in Kosovan conflict was the gap between the USA and the rest of the world. It is emphasized that “most countries, entailing the great powers, has initiated post national understanding of global governance on questions of world order. France, Germany, Russia, China and other world powers are now committed to international rules forbidding the unilateral use of force and to a form of consensual global governance. This is a remarkable achievement ‑ the vision of the founders of the UN”.
Still, the US avoids explaining the bombing of Serbian Kosovo, while Serbs were subjected to ethnic cleansing by Albanians, and KLA was reasonably suspected in contacts with Al Qaeda and drug trafficking. (Vaknin, 2005) Thus, the USA followed its own aims, which are not linked with the global welfare and peace on the Earth. Thus, the UNO also fails to accomplish its task and resist the real aggressor.
However, the violators had stayed unpunished and felt free to start another military assault in 2003. The intervention to Iraq was neither approved by the Security Council. As Arnold (2005) emphasizes, the Bush team members even did not wish to discuss the issue of the absence of UNSC resolution: “Questioning the relevancy and the legitimacy of the UN is not only immature and impulsive, it is an underhanded and dangerous challenge to the only organization the world now has for dealing with a host of problems that neither the United States nor any other country can or should want to tackle alone. At the top of that list are AIDS, world hunger, human rights, failures and deficiencies in the nation state system, and the real war on terrorism.”
The war in Iraq was just regarded as the best way to disarm Saddam. In spite of the fact that the mass destruction weapon was not found in Iraq, the USA and the Great Britain do not feel any guilt. Neither the UN can impose any sanctions upon them. Consequently, the UNO loses its position of the world arbitrary, as it is unable to control the actions by superpowers, thus, the relevance of this organization is seriously doubted.
References
The Nation. “The UN Relevance” 2003. Web.
Terrell E. Arnold. “On The Relevance Of The United Nations”. 2005. Web.
Sam Vaknin. “Should UN Administer Iraq: Kosovo’s Iraqi Lessons”. 2005. Web.