UN General Assembly
2025

There is increasing defiance because too often major decisions taken by this organisation seem to serve the interests of some great powers to the detriment of the aspirations of the countries of the South, because the Security Council remains a very fixed structure, a legacy of the post-war period, where Africa, the cradle of a fifth of humanity, remains excluded for all major representation, because sanction and intervention mechanisms are often selective and indignation seems to be conditioned on where it is happening geographically. We need to be bold enough to say here that peacekeeping missions of the UN have often failed in their promises and in their duty, be this in Haiti, in the CAR, in the Democratic Republic of Congo or in Mali. The blue helmets in certain cases have been accused of inaction and even behaviour that runs counter to the very principles of the organisation that they represent. How can we understand that instead of protecting, some have been complicit in violations?