The Security Council has been weakened by tensions between the West, Moscow and Beijing
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets with French President, Emmanuel Macron at the Grand Prince Hotel in Hiroshima during this year’s G7 Summit in Japan. Both are absent from this week's UN General Assembly in New York. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
The question is whether this is just one of the UN’s intermittent low ebbs, or whether it reflects a profound shift in how the world is run. There is no shortage of pretenders to replace it. In the past month two “newbie” multilateral bodies, the G20, which has just included the African Union, and the Brics — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — which is also expanding, attracted leaders, headlines and sweeping debates over the world order.
Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters and his dog are displayed on a screen at the UN headquarters in New York during an address to a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, on February 8th, 2023. Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images Diplomats from the developing world highlight that America and its allies have, at times in the past, also ridden roughshod over UN convention.
A general view of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals summit on the sidelines of this week's United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York.
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