The Rich And The Poor by Altaf Gauhar

Author:Altaf Gauhar [Gauhar, Altaf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology
ISBN: 9780813302928
Google: 802wDwAAQBAJ
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1985-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

In addition, positive encouragement should be given to the Secretary-General’s proposal that he ‘should play a more forthright role in bringing potentially dangerous situations to the attention of the Council within the framework of Article 99 of the Charter’, as well as to his stated intention ‘to develop a wider and more systematic capacity for fact-finding in potential conflict areas’.

A special responsibility rests on the Security Council. Members of the Council should be encouraged (as the Secretary-General has suggested) to ‘devise more swift and responsive procedures for sending good office missions, military or civilian observers or a United Nations presence to areas of potential conflict’. Third World countries should give their particular support to the Secretary-General’s suggestion that the Security Council ‘give renewed consideration to reviewing and strengthening its practices and procedures with a view to acting swiftly and decisively in crises’, and that ‘adequate working relations between the permanent members of the Security Council are a sine qua non of the Council’s effectiveness’. In this context, the Palme Commission’s call for a ‘concordat’ between the permanent members in relation to the use of the veto within a system of collective security has special relevance.

The Secretary-General has urged that ‘Member states, especially the members of the Security Council should again study urgently the means by which (our) peacekeeping operations could be strengthened’. Resolution 37/119 (adopted without a vote under the new item on ‘Implementation of the Collective Security Provisions of the Charter for the maintenance of International Peace and Security’) specifically requests the Security Council ‘to study the question of implementation of the collective security provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, with a view to strengthening international peace and security and to report to the General Assembly at the 38th Session’. The Secretary-General’s call and Resolutions 37/67 and 37/119 taken together constitute a powerful mandate for Security Council action which the Third World should encourage the Council to take seriously and to fulfil, with Third World members of the Council playing a positive role.

The Secretary-General’s final suggestion is that ‘consideration be given to the usefulness of holding a meeting of the Security Council at the highest possible level, one object of which might be to discuss in depth some of the problems mentioned in the Report’. This suggestion deserves to be pursued with a view to securing, preferably during 1983, a special meeting of the Security Council designed to realise what the Secretary-General has described as ‘the great possibilities for a more stable system of collective international security’.

These developments hold out the hope that there could be put in place, on the basis of a new partnership between the major powers and the rest of the international community, a system of collective security that provides a whole range of deterrents to would-be aggressors, gives international peacekeeping a preventive role, and activates the United Nations in advance of aggression and not merely in its wake when an international peacekeeping force can so easily become not the guarantor of a nation’s territorial integrity but of the line that the aggressor has reached.

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