Sunday,
November 18, 2007
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
UN Security Council has FIVE (5) PERMANENT Members
with VETO Power (there are Seven Additional Rotating Members)
Those
Five are US,
Prof.
Megalommatis argues that obviously, now 60 years
later, reform is LONG overdue, to realign the Security Council by
adding more members. Originally the General Assembly had 50 Members, now it has
192 Members.The question is how many and who.
Megalommatis suggests that seven (7) or (8) additional
members, for a total of (12) or (13) would be
appropriate, even though the number of UN members have almost quadrupled.
It
appears that
Megalommatis below makes a strong case for
He
also cites Italy's great contributions to Western Civilization for 2 1/2
millennium, and also notes that compared to Spain, Portugal, England, France,
Belgium, Russia, Holland, and Germany, Italy has been slightly involved in colonial
adventures , and even more recently, the Italian attitude to return
antiquities abducted during the colonial times testifies in striking opposition
to French and British practices - to full rejection of the colonial
robbery of Asiatic, African and American antiquities.
In three earlier
articles, we first referred to the three-day deliberations (on the impending UN
reforms) that have been concluded on November 14th in the UN General Assembly.
To highlight the developments, we quoted Srgjan Kerim, the Assembly President, who stated that "the
debate demonstrated the clear commitment of Member States to embark upon a new stage that offers the prospect of achieving the ultimate
goal of comprehensive reform"
We then analyzed
the historical developments that have produced an extraordinarily different
international environment over the past 65 years, and we insisted on the
importance of the values and principles declared in Charter of the UN for the
forthcoming reform. We subsequently advocated for
We
thus called for a more representative UN Security Council able to reflect
today's world, and pertinently address the overwhelming aspirations for
Humanism, Democracy, Freedom, Justice, and respect of the Human Rights.
In the present
article, we will go on, advocating for a more representative UN Security
Council, suggesting Veto Right for further candidates, and more precisely
Italy.
The
country of the Apennines, in the south of the
First, we don't believe that in
a 192-member forum like the UN General Assembly, we can discuss for representativeness with less than at least 13 members with
UN Veto right. Already, the incumbent five (5) UN Security Council permanent
members were institutionalized as such at a moment (before more than 60 years)
the General Assembly consisted of 50 states in total; this suggests
automatically a ratio 1:10. If we are to apply the ratio, we should propose
up to 19 UN Security Council permanent members. This is an arithmetic
approach, and helps better contextualize the overall problem, and - to
some extent - highlight our suggestion for
Second, if
Third, we should take into
consideration all the underlying principles, and the parameters involved. Italy
may be the world's 23rd country with respect to population (and therefore
dwarfed by countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Philippines, and
Vietnam), but Europe's exemplary democracy is the world's no 8 in terms
of GDP, ahead of Russia, Brazil, South Korea, Canada, and Mexico.
As one of the
underlying principles in respect with the UN Security Council reform should be
the promotion and the reward of a nation for its economic competence,
technological effectiveness, industrial creativity, financial dynamism, overall
productivity, and commitment to progress, nations - negative models
cannot possibly have a position in the UN Security Council because of just a pathetic
birth rate growth.
Historical
parameters
By promoting (italy as) the Cradle of the Modern Western Civilization,
the Birthplace of Renaissance, and one of the world's most knowledgeable
nations to the position of UN Security Council permanent member, one offers
an excellent example to the aforementioned five underdeveloped nations, and a
prototype for most to follow.
As in the case
of
Yet, a decade
later, Italy was one of the six constituent members of the embryonic form of
the European Union.
Despite accentuated emigration (due to economic underdevelopment in the 50s Mezzogiorno), which was mainly directed to America and
Germany, Italy managed to recover almost as fast as Germany, and over the past
50 years the country of the Apennines has permanently been at the same economic
level with England and France. One must bear in mind that Italian Americans
amount to 18 million, whereas Italians in
A great
economic power
Founding
member of G-8,
When it comes to
Gross Fixed Investment as part of the GDP,
With imports
totaling US $ 428.7 b,
When it comes to
Foreign Exchange and Gold reserves,
As regards
technological development and ICT indicators, Italy leads England and France, as regards mobile
telephone lines (71.5 million, instead of 69.6 million and 53 million
respectively), but has fewer Internet users (28.8 million, instead of 33.5
million and 31.3 million respectively).
If
Practically
speaking, there is no reason to even discuss
Third World
countries should enthusiastically support
Who does
not want
It is essential
to underscore at this point that the main opposition against
This demonstrates
very clearly the permanently vicious and authentically colonial attitudes and
targets of the disreputable French diplomacy, and the biased character of the
French opposition to
The only parallel
attitude of a country against another's candidacy - among the already discussed
cases - can be identified in the Chinese skepticism about Japan, but this is
rather relevant of traditional enmity (as Japan had partly colonized China),
and regional balance of power, which both are understandable (though not
acceptable) reasons for reluctance.
Contrarily, in
the case of French machinations against
It would be
essential in this regard to bear in mind that Frances intrigues within the
European Union involve the formation of a sort of tripartite directory (France -
Germany - England) within which an anti-British majority is pre-arranged
due to the French - German axis, and at a second stage, the use of this
scheme in order to impose, in a disreputable and undignified way, policies to
all the other member states of the European Union, as already attested in the
case of Poland in particular.
French
anti-Italian biases affecting other parts of the world
This affair does
concern the rest of the world, and more particularly has an impact on Africa
and the Middle East where various administrations and numerous oppressed
peoples should hold
After all, it is
quite indicative of
Certainly, in the
case of
Drawing the
conclusion that population, surface, and economic development are not the
only criteria, one should be concerned with the fact that
30 million Russian citizens - belonging to various
ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious minorities that are currently
oppressed by the Russian totalitarian regime - do not have the same
rights as the Sicilians, the Padanians, the
Sardinians, and the various other minorities of the Italian democratic society.
What can be the
bottom line in this regard is that reforming the UN should be a matter directly
linked to propagating the most advanced concepts of Democracy, Human Rights,
and unbiased representativeness at the international
community level. If undemocratic
In a forthcoming
article, we will examine whether the world would be correctly represented
within the UN through the extension of UN Security Council permanent membership
to
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=43225
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Dr.
Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis,
50, Orientalist, Historian, Political Scientist, is
the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia
entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15,
modern and ancient, languages. He refuted Greek nationalism, supported Martin
Bernals Black Athena, and rejected the Greco-Romano-centric version of
History. He pleaded for the European History by J. B. Duroselle,
and defended the rights of the Turkish, Pomak,
Macedonian, Vlachian, Arvanitic,
Latin Catholic, and Jewish minorities of
Greek
citizen of Turkish origin, Prof. Megalommatis studied
and/or worked in
Links
to Previous Articles: We include here the links to three articles:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=43175
/
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=43181).
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