US and allies want to shuffle such discussions to the Bretton Woods institutions, where they enjoy a blocking minority
Youths cheer members of the Sudanese military outside Khartoum. The war in Sudan is one of several that will focus attention at the summit. Photograph: Ivor Prickett/New York TimesOne of the biggest international political events of recent years opens in New York on Sunday, with more than 130 presidents and prime ministers and representatives from about 7,000 non-governmental organisations expected to attend.
‘Prime minister Farage’: Reform UK leader says party has ‘come of age’ and could win the next electionSri Lanka’s ruling elite face judgment in first election since plunge into financial crisis Although some of today’s international bodies are more than a century old — the International Labour Organisation was founded in 1919 and the Universal Postal Union dates back to 1874 — most were established after the end of the second World War. The UN was formed in 1945 as an international intergovernmental organisation to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”.
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union heralded a new era of international co-operation, with relations between Washington, Moscow and Beijing on a relatively good footing. Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s 1992 report An Agenda for Peace outlined a vision of an activist, interventionist UN with a greater focus on preventive diplomacy, peace enforcement and post-conflict peacebuilding.
The year 2023 marked the highest number of state-based conflicts in the world since 1945 and the past three years have seen more conflict-related deaths than any time in the last three decades, according to the Peace Research Institute Oslo. But in a meeting last week to draft the Pact for the Future to be adopted by consensus at the end of next week’s summit, diplomats argued over whether it could include the word “aggression”.
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