by Giuseppe Timpone

Created on: December 14, 2008

FEWER MONEY FOR A USELESS INSTITUTION
The elected US President Barack Obama will have a different approach in the abroad policies. Undoubtedly, the next months we will notice a change in the relations with the European countries, and with the other historical US partners. But, it would be a bad start, if the elected President creates his own relationships with abroad countries inside the UNO.

UNO is no longer a believable organization; perhaps, it never was! The latest two decades, in particular, widely showed, as the United Nations are completely powerless, in face of all the most important regional or local crisis. Its Security Board still reflects the political picture, soon after the second world war. It could seem incredible, but it is still so. More: the United Nations are not able to say just one clear word, as regards human rights, democracy, freedom, because most of its members are dictatorships, often bloody dictatorships.
In such as this situation, it is not a paradox that all the real choices the democratic and industrialized countries have to debate, happen outside the UN, as for the G7 meetings.
The United States are the biggest financer of the international organizations, UN included, but as a result, they cannot get anything good by it, as the cases Irak, Iran, Palestine and many others clearly indicate.
Should the United States continue financing the UNO as the same as in the recent past? I don't think so. I think, the USA should use their money, as a mean to make the United Nations radically change. We all know that UN wouldn't survive one more day, without the US financing, as the institutions belonging to it are paid in percentage of a member country's GDP. It is obvious, that being the first world economy, with a national GDP almost to one quarter of the total world one, without US money, the UN should change their structure of internal financing, forcing the other countries (among them, many dictatorships) to pay more, to be represented. Probably, some other rich and industrialized, democratic countries would follow the example, claiming for a change. It would be not only a financial shot for the UN, but, above all, the sign that the democracies want a more efficient international institution. In any case, it is a nonsense to go on financing so heavily such as this useless institution, where all its members are considered at the same level, no care about their internal rate of democracy and freedom, and where the only one real solidarity is that of dictatorships, able to veto any drastic decision against their interests.

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