The UN’s dysfunction undermines global security, argue Ban Ki-moon and Helen Clark
The organisation should not be held hostage by a few powerful states
WHEN THE Charter of the United Nations was signed, 80 years ago this week, President Harry Truman emphasised that the document’s value lay only in the will of governments to use it. “The job”, he said, “will tax the moral strength and fibre of us all.”
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