Revolution at the United Nations? First Ministerial Meeting of the “Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations”
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Exclusive report from Global Research’s Correspondent Carla Stea at United Nations headquarters in New York City
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On September 23, 2021, at the Permanent Mission of Venezuela to the United Nations, the Foreign Ministers and other representatives of Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Nicaragua, the State of Palestine, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria and Venezuela met at 8:00AM and adopted a Political Declaration. Perhaps the most crucial point of this Declaration is expressed in point “4.” which states:
Image on the right: DPRK Ambassador Kim Song
“We express our serious concern at the growing resort to unilateralism, in detriment not only of multilateralism, but also of international cooperation and solidarity, which must be deepened now more than ever, including in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to forge collective, inclusive and effective solutions to the common challenges and threats of a Twenty-First Century of interconnectedness. Hence, while renewing our firm commitment with a reinvigorated multilateralism that shall have the United Nations at its centre, we convey our support to nations and peoples subjected to unilateral and arbitrary approaches that violate both the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the basic norms of international law, and renew our call for the full respect to the inalienable right of peoples to self-determination, as well as the territorial integrity and political independence of all nations.”
Perhaps it is inevitable that this Declaration was conceived by the nations in synchronization with the principles of Venezuela, birthplace of Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of Latin America from Spanish Imperialism, and now inspiring some of the most powerful and progressive member states of the United Nations to form an alliance to liberate the United Nations from the unilateralism which is crushing it, and rendering it impotent. This seems to be inherent in point “5” of this Declaration of September 23, which states:
Image below: Venezuelan Ambassador
“We invite those members of the international community that are committed with the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, with the prevalence of legality over force, with the values of dialogue, tolerance and solidarity, as well as with an effective and inclusive multilateralism, in joining our Group of Friends and/or endorsing this Declaration at their earliest convenience, as part of our common efforts to advance our common agenda and to ultimately keep delivering on the promise of the Charter of the United Nations and ensuring that no one is left behind.”
Reading of the Declaration: Venezuelan foreign minister and ambassador
Stealthily, the United Nations “Public-Private Partnerships” are increasing private corporate control of the United Nations, with the corporate “elite” partners exerting exponentially greater influence over United Nations programs, facilitating multiple methods of covertly imposing neoliberal development models through United Nations agencies often disguised as “humanitarian interventions” but indistinguishable from “color revolutions.”
This usurpation of United Nations agencies has vastly increased often suffocating unilateral control over the United Nations member states, the majority of which are often targets of this agenda.
Group photo with Syrian DFM Jafaari at the back
This new “Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations” offers an alternative option to vulnerable targeted member states, and the inclusion of China and Russia in this new organization seeking to re-create balance in “Defense of the United Nations Charter” promises a formidable alternative of hope, and, indeed, power for the increasing number of United Nations member states threatened with subjugation by Western capitalist dominance.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
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Carla Stea is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) and Global Research’s Correspondent at UN headquarters, New York.
All images in this article are from the author; featured image is Venezuelan foreign minister
