The policies of the U.N. with respect to languages, which define the ethnicities that fight over illogically-drawn national boundaries, as in my examples, have been abominable. The U.N. leadership, accepting ipso facto the arbitrary boundaries of political states in lieu of the natural boundaries of language and culture, have caused rather than cured world strife. Their pretext and excuse is that they are dealing with politics. The Internet does not have this pretext. National political boundaries are nothing to the Internet.
Language is all.
I know nothing of the U.N.'s administration, nor does it enter into this discussion. What we are dealing with here is the representation in an international organization of a vast number of users spread throughout the world. Their organization within a general membership is necessarily political, and ought not to be restricted, as it now is, by a rule that they must speak English or they are not heard, because that is the effect of the present situation. Yet that is precisely what it now is. I propose that we do something to change this situation, so that those who haven't mastered English yet and who use the Internet may participate.