The would-be world government

The proposal put forward by Slovenian president and former UN ambassador Danilo Türk to increase the UN Security Council to 25 members has not fallen on deaf ears, owing, in the opinion of the Slovenian daily Večer, to Türk's having worked for the organisation for many years. "If we understand Türk correctly, a structure like this would make it possible to get around a veto - the trump card the great powers have played against each other only too often. The UN is a rigid bureaucratic organisation. ... It is often rocked by scandals and is frequently left entirely helpless. Just remember what happened with Srebrenica! But in reality it is all we have. And at any given moment it is needed somewhere in the world. Even [US president] George W. Bush conceded as much on Tuesday when he said that the UN's role must be strengthened. This is a complete reversal of his former views, brought about among other things by the financial crisis in the US, for which everyone, in particular the world's poorest, will pay. But this, too, could give this would-be world government the decisive impulse for change to and also for more efficiency."

» full article (external link, Slovenian)
More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Global
All available articles from » Boris Jausovec

» To the complete press review of Thursday, September 25, 2008