The Role of the United Nations Organization.

Is it doing its job right?

  The United Nations System International organization is nowadays and without any question the most influential and important worldwide organism. This is mainly due to the fact that it unites many countries in a place where everybody can be heard. The “chief executives” are the most powerful countries which run and are in charge of the decision-making department of this organization.

  Its main target is to keep peace among all the nations and we have admitted that the objectives and goals that it has achieved through the years are remarkable and it has changed the reality of many people around the world, especially the weakest and the poorest.

  But we have got to take a moment and ask ourselves the following question: Is the United Nations Organization doing its job right? It has not always achieved what it is expected from it.

  When the decision-making relies on some of the most important nation-state such as USA, France and Germany which even though, their job is to promote and defend the organization objectives (such a Justice, development, peace, etc) and protect the world’s interests, it is not always what they do. Many of the countries which take part of this organization work for themselves and for their interests of their own country, not caring for the damage and pain they could cause somewhere else, out of their boundaries.

  I perceive example of this: The war in Iraq. When the United States of America, practically, walked over the United Nations and invaded Iraq despite the decision of the U.N to “end up” terrorism. In this case, the power that the U.N was supposed to have to avoid war did not work. The rules and procedures that they were supposed to follow and stick to, were respected by some of the countries, but not by the most powerful one which thought they were not the most appropriate ones, and did what it thought was a better way: war.

 What about its main principle?

  On the other hand, what it also seems unfair to me is the power-decision big gap existing between the big countries and the developing world. We do not find equilibrium when it comes to making decisions. This violates the most important principle of international law, which says: "All countries no matter how developed, they are, they have the same rights and must be treated as equal."

  This is why the United Nations Organization needs to reform some of these articles, aiming to make its structure and its institutions in general stronger, where the decisions take place through consensus.

  Finally, it is also necessary certain mechanisms to punish those countries that do not follow the statements and rules adopted by the UN and signed up by each country. In other words, it should be tougher, specially, with those countries that do not carry out the organization's decisions.

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