After three years horrific and brutal civil war, which so far,
- has resulted in the deaths of more than 130,000 people
- has internally displaced more than 6.5 million people
- has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than 2.5 million refugees
- has caused the total destruction of key infrastructure in Syria
- has turned Syria into the safest haven for all jihadist and terrorist groups around the world
- has caused enormous instability in different parts of the Middle East , etc.
Should we be happy now that the Syrian delegation and the opposition have seated around one table somewhere in Geneva and talk to each other directly or sometimes indirectly through Mr. L. Brahimi? Should we be happy and call it a successful event, because we have managed to gather these two opposite groups in a meeting after three disastrous years?
Or should we honestly admit that:
- The UN has absolutely failed to find a peaceful, diplomatic and fundamental solution for this conflict.
- The Security Council has totally failed to deal with this conflict in an appropriate and professional manner.
- There are fundamental weaknesses within the structure of the UN and its most important entities "The Security Council".
- The UN and all its entities need fundamental reforms.
In sum, we should accept the fact that the Cold War era is over and we have entered in another new era. Although, at the present we are apparently experiencing the same problems that we had observed during the Cold War period, but difference examples confirm the fact that most of these previously made international entities cannot deal with contemporary problems properly. In this respect, the nonchalant and reluctant reaction of the UN and the Security Council in response to the Syrian civil war is a crystal clear example. Therefore, we need to establish a set of new international institutions, which would be able to deal with contemporary problems in a new, effective, fundamental and sustainable way.
M. Sirani 25.01.2014
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