Divisiveness root cause of global crises

The fierce contestation in the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Multilateral Cooperation in the Interest of a More Just, Democratic and Sustainable World Order served to demonstrate the necessity of this event, which was convened at the UN Headquarters on Tuesday.

An opportunity for the countries to have an in-depth exchange of views on the core issues related to the subject of the debate, the event instead exposed why the world body has been so ineffective in addressing so many hotspot issues. These acute issues would not have become what they are today had all the UN members upheld the UN Charter as the bedrock of the world order.

That the activity was convened at the initiative of Russia, presided over by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, prompted representatives of some countries to turn the open debate into a collective attack on Russia over the Ukraine crisis. The beleaguering of one country by a group of "like-minded" countries in the UNSC epitomizes the root cause of the crises the UNSC is supposed to find solutions to.