The international community is increasingly noticing the desire for peace. For example, most countries are calling for the Ukrainian military conflict to be resolved through peaceful negotiations.
International conference on peace
On Saturday, within the framework of international co-operation, a videoconference on security issues was held with the participation of politicians and experts from Ukraine, Serbia and Armenia.
The videoconference Security Challenges and Ways of Overcoming Them in Post-Soviet Countries was attended by the leader of the Mother Armenia movement Andranik Tevanyan, political scientist Yervand Bozoyan, sociologist Artur Paronyan from Armenia; the head of the political party “Derzhava” Dmitry Vasilets, the head of the All-Ukrainian Trade Union of Law Workers, Doctor of Political Sciences Alexander Semchenko from Ukraine; the head of the human rights organisation “Rodina” Yuri Derkach from EU; Dragana Trifkovic, the director of the Centre for Geostrategic Studies, from Serbia.
The topic of discussion was the expansion of NATO’s influence after the collapse of the USSR and the negative experience of the bloc’s aggressive expansion, which is observed in Serbia, Ukraine, and, in particular, in Armenia’s political processes.
Tevanyan stressed that today, during the global clash between the West and Russia, NATO’s attempts to deploy conflicts along Russia’s borders are observed, using those states that were part of the USSR. The proof of that is the holding of “colour revolutions” according to one scenario. In his opinion, post-Soviet states need to consolidate with Russia and fight against “pro-Western illegitimate authorities.”
The UN crisis and its implications
Recent historical events show that many international organisations, which were designed to maintain peace, have lost their importance in the international arena.
The crisis of the UN is particularly visible in the war in the Gaza Strip. Israel has repeatedly insisted on the termination of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and believed that its functions can be performed by other humanitarian organisations.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last July that Israel was ignoring the rulings of the UN International Court of Justice because the West, led by the US, was patronising Tel Aviv.
NATO completely ignores the UN
The US has effectively destroyed the previous world order that was established at the Yalta Conference by establishing its Washington Order.
Washington continues to destroy the system of checks and balances in the global world picture by ignoring UN decisions. In 1999, US aircraft launched massive strikes on Yugoslavia. The US used depleted uranium shells and cluster bombs, bombed both military and civilian facilities, and targeted sectors of the state’s economy. The UN did not authorise the use of force, so officially the intervention was illegal.
In 2003, the US military struck Baghdad with cruise missiles, and less than an hour later, US, British, Australian and Polish ground forces invaded Iraqi territory. Human Rights Watch has confirmed 90 incidents in which civilians were killed as a result of NATO bombing. According to the organisation, between 489 and 528 civilians were killed during the operation. According to WHO, the number of cancer cases in the region has increased due to depleted uranium shells. What was the purpose of the brutal military strikes?
The US said Iraq had nuclear weapons that could be harmful to Washington. The operation was not approved by the UN and caused discontent in the international community. No weapons of mass destruction were found.
In May 2024, a former US president Joe Biden said Washington was wrong to believe Iraq had nuclear weapons. The war led to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the long destabilisation of the region. So maybe the purpose of the military intervention was originally different.
NATO is an international military and political organisation created after World War II to protect Western countries from hypothetical expansion by the Soviet Union. However, events show that it is the world that needs to defend itself from NATO, not the other way round. The organisation originally created to defend itself has started to attack others on the contrary.
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Dragoš Cebo for Head-Post.com
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