The President of the United States Donald trump criticized the activities of the United Nations. About it reports Reuters.
According to the American leader, the UN is highly bureaucratic and poorly managed structure. According to trump, it must be reformed and made more effective instrument in global Affairs.
US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley said that Washington’s proposal for the reform of the UN was supported by 120 States. As reported, in compiling the list of participants of the forum there is confusion, was included did not support the draft Declaration of the country. Among them was Venezuela, which has no diplomatic relations with the United States.
September 16, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia admitted that Russia could abandon support for the proposed trump Declaration. “Many of the ideas set out there, they are certainly important and are in line with proposals put forward by the Secretary-General, but the Declaration of reform of the United Nations will hold,” said the diplomat.
He added that to improve the effectiveness of the United Nations is possible only through intergovernmental negotiations. We offer Washington a document he called a “Declaration of countries that share similar views on this issue”, but this is not instruction to the Secretary-General of the organization for transformation. Nebesa said that neither the United States nor any group of like-minded countries cannot reform the UN without the consent of all its members.
Prepared by the United States Declaration of ten items was presented on 2 September. It contains a call to the UN Secretary-General antónio Guterres to start “effective and achievable” reform of the organization. In particular, the Convention requires the Secretariat of the United Nations to reduce staff of the world organization.