TURKIYE- Columnist Yilmaz Oztuna comments on the United Nations’ stance concerning the Iraq crisis. A summary of his column is as follows:
A consensus on the Cyprus issue wasn’t reached on the Hague. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan didn’t go to New York with the plan called with his name and left it on the table. However, he didn’t speak in a hopeful way, either.
The US was incapable of ensuring nine country’s votes for the Security Council. What’s more, it faced France and Russia’s threat of veto. Neither France, nor Russia and People’s Republic of China can burn its bridges with the US. France reached an agreement of $40 billion with Saddam Hussein on the Iraqi oil. The US promises to comply with this agreement in the operation against Iraq. If France had received such a guarantee, it would have sent its battleships to Gulf already in order to support the US. The US will provide neither France nor Britain with broad range of rights in terms of the distribution of Iraqi oil.
This example is enough to show that the UN is being used as an instrument; it’s incapable of being above the countries’ interests and implementing its principles of rights and law. The UN should implement reforms. There are three African countries at the Security Council, consisting of a total of 15 countries. However, such countries as Japan and India aren’t members. Turkey has never been elected a member.
In any case, the US, which is the founder and the basic power of the UN and NATO, is aware of this fact. It’s trying to establish the new world order called Pax Americana. A few of our politicians are aware of this fact.
SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER, DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF PRESS AND INFORMATION