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If Biden Wants to Save the UN, He Should Kill the Veto
Washington is hopping on the bandwagon to modernize the Security Council. But it refuses to change the thing that matters most.
I come to signal virtue.
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The whole world, literally, knows that the United Nations and its Security Council are anachronistic, unfair if not downright rigged, generally dysfunctional and in dire need of reform.
On paper, such an upgrade is on the agenda this week, as the General Assembly convenes in New York for the 79th time. In a feat of communication last attempted in Babel, the 193 member states have approved an optimistically titled “Pact for the Future.” Now they have to figure out what that means.