Only a strong United Nations

Only a strong… and united (!) United Nations will be able...

To serve as a valid and efficient spokesman, representing all countries and not merely a few (European Union, OECD, Arab League... each, moreover, with its “less than exemplary” history) to intervene –and prevent- situations that Gaddafi’s Libya so dramatically represents...

As was to be expected, we are reaching a point of no return, and we will lose a historic opportunity, with many victims and much suffering.

The G-8 and G-20 continue to crumble, while the United Nations isn’t receiving –and this would be the moment to do so- the support needs to play the role that only it can play.

If it receives the support of all of the “globalizers” who seek to be the dominant power, and having been entrusted with an unpostponable universal commitment to the future generations, the United Nations is the only institution capable of reaching a global energy agreement that respects the environment, to henceforth regulate the consumption, use and characteristics of different energy sources (including, and foremost, oil and nuclear energy).

Only the United Nations system has the capacity to coordinate and implement the appropriate courses of action to respond to natural or man-made disasters and to reduce their impact, with the right technology and properly trained personnel...

Only a strong and united United Nations can provide a universally-recognized reference for the arbitration of such “new” and urgent global matters such as the management of Internet...

The time for neo-liberal globalization, for G groups and dominant powers is over. “The Peoples” referred to in the United Nations Charter are now beginning to make their voices heard.