(This is an open letter to UN Secretary-General)
Dear Antonio Guterres,
Your name reminds me of a Hollywood action hero. But obviously, this is not the reason why I am writing this letter to you. The reason why I am writing you is to discuss the enfranchisement your organization gives me as a citizen of this global society, whose ownership you claim as a global organization.
Before I address this open letter to the UN Secretary-General, your motto, or perhaps one of the goals of “shaping our future together,” needs to be discussed.
Sir, how do you see the shaping of a shared future in today’s world whose morals are defined by the leading donor countries who sustain costly organizations like UN, of whose you are a proud secretary-general.
No need to tell you that one of the main stated jobs of your organization is to maintain international peace and security. But could you enlighten me how far you have achieved in this goal? Just your honest opinion.
Take Kashmir, for instance!
Since the eruption of the Kashmir issue in 1947, how many resolutions your organization has passed? Let me remind you that in the last seven decades, how all of them have proved an impotent and worthless piece of papers in the end.
The condemnations and concerns that your organization expresses every now and then over Kashmir crisis in which India has been an aggressor, is indeed laudable. But at the end of the day, it is as worthless as a doctor praying for a dying man’s health, instead of saving him.
Your principled stand in Palestine is as worth-praising as your policy in Kashmir. Also, as worthless.
My coreligionists, for I am a Muslim (unfortunately), blame me that it is a global conspiracy against Muslims but I don’t buy this. I tell them it is only a “supreme coincidence” that everywhere the persecuted happen to be Muslims.
Perhaps, your predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had a more realistic view of your organization, when he said the “United Nations was created not to lead mankind to heaven but to save humanity from hell.”
United Nations, that was created from the ruins of World War II, achieved many goals for which it was created. For it has definitely made wars less possible today than before its creation. But kindly tell me, don’t you think that it (UN) has since implicitly monopolized wars for the economically powerful states.
Don’t you think your platform has been misused by the superpowers like the United States of America which use the United Nations as one of its organs to justify its fouls and blunders? To even justify wars whenever “democracy is in danger”? But it leads me to ask another question: how democratic is your organization itself?
Is it a unity of equal nations? Obviously, you cannot defend the Security Council’s system of 5 permanent members who actually constitute the UN’s de facto power. I am saying “power” on purpose, which is different from authority.
Sir, the objective of this letter is not to educate you anything new. The only, and humble, reason that provoked me to remind you of the purpose for which the UN was created in 1945.
Remember, Rome was originally meant to be a Republic but eventually fell to Caesars who had corrupted the democratic nature of it. Today’s superpowers are doing the same to your organization, what Caesars had done to Senate in ancient Rome.
A concerned global citizen.
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