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Saudi Ex-Spymaster Pens Scathing Op-Ed On "Rethinking The Global Order"

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/un-system-needs-reform-by-turki-bin-faisal-al-saud-2022-07
https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/files/gaA.59.565_En.pdf

With Saudi Arabia reportedly in discussions to join BRICS (Brazil,
Russia, India and China), and President Biden set to meet with Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) - who he vowed to make "the pariah,
that they are" during the 2020 elections over the killing of
journalist Jamal Khashoggi - a July 4 Op-Ed by former Saudi spymaster
Turki bin Faisal Al Saud over the current state of affairs may provide
key insight at this particular moment in geopolitics.

In short, while fundamentally endorsing the UN's globalist agenda, Al
Saud argues that those leading the current international order have
"failed to live up to the principles of good governance enshrined in
the UN charter," and that hypocritical world leaders "need to come to
their senses" and reform "deeper structural problems" in order to
adapt to the new, multipolar order pushed by Russia an dChina.

"Our organizing principles still reflect the mentality of the post-war
and Cold War era," he argues, citing a UN report that concluded major
reforms were needed.

Authored by Turki bin Faisal Al Saud via Project Syndicate (emphasis ours),

For decades, it has been obvious that the UN system needs to be
reformed to account for the realities of the twenty-first century. Yet
recommendations to restructure global governance have been ignored by
those with the power to carry them out, leaving us with a world of
multiplying crises for which there are few solutions.

BAKU – Just as the world was beginning to recover from one of the
biggest crises in recent decades, another one has erupted in Europe.
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic underscored our common humanity,
Russia’s war on Ukraine has reminded us of how fragile,
interconnected, and interdependent our world is. As the Chinese say,
“All is one under heaven.”

Intensifying great-power confrontations and deglobalization are
jeopardizing world peace and security. New crises seem to be lurking
around every corner, but appropriate solutions are nowhere to be seen
– not in the Far East, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa,
Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, or Latin America. The popular mood
has darkened, reinvigorating populism, nationalism, Islamophobia, and
other atavistic trends that threaten the progressive achievements
humanity has made since World War II.

The Ukraine crisis itself is a symptom of deeper structural problems
in the international order. That order, led by the permanent members
of the United Nations Security Council (China, France, Russia, the
United Kingdom, and the United States), has failed to live up to the
principles of good governance enshrined in the UN Charter.

New global orders tend to emerge from major wars. In the case of WWII,
the victors created structures designed to preserve international
peace and security. But while our increasingly integrated world has
changed dramatically since the UN’s founding, our organizing
principles still reflect the mentality of the post-war and Cold War
era. Within the current framework, a failure to respond to global
challenges is a failure of the entire international community.

Can the system be reformed? Calls since the early 1990s to restructure
the UN system – the avatar for the broader international order – have
consistently fallen on deaf ears. Worse, Russia and China are now
using their seats at the helm of the international order to push for a
more multipolar system. Rather than working to reform the current
framework, they are challenging its validity.

Humanity’s collective achievements over the past seven decades are a
testament to why we must work together to make the UN system more
fair, inclusive, and attentive to people’s needs and aspirations.
Indeed, that was the mission of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s
High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change in 2003.

Consisting of 16 eminent figures from different parts of the world,
and chaired by former Thai Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, the panel
analyzed contemporary threats to international peace and security;
evaluated how well existing policies and institutions had done in
addressing those threats; and offered recommendations aimed at
strengthening the UN and enabling it to provide collective security
for the twenty-first century.

The panel’s final report made clear that all of the UN’s principal
organs needed reform, including the Security Council, which the panel
argued should be expanded. Unfortunately, the Security Council’s
veto-wielding permanent members simply ignored the panel’s
recommendations, setting the stage for today’s paralysis and
dysfunction.

The Middle East is especially in need of a well-functioning, genuinely
representative UN system. No region has suffered more from the unfair
bipolar and unipolar dynamics of the past. We have been the altar on
which the principles of the international order are routinely
sacrificed. The same principles that led to the creation of the State
of Israel also led to the Palestinians being deprived of their
homeland and denied their basic rights to self-determination and
statehood.

As the Middle East has gone from one war to another, from one
catastrophe to another, and from one UN resolution to another, justice
has continuously eluded it. Every time an Arab, Muslim, or Middle
Eastern issue comes up, the hypocrisy of the great powers that lead
the international order becomes crystal clear.

The leaders of those powers need to come to their senses. Reforming
the existing order requires new thinking by all UN member states,
including the Security Council’s five permanent members. The
international order can preserve peace and security only to the extent
that it is equitable and capable of meeting the challenges that
humanity faces. Short of that, geopolitical upheavals will continue to
threaten world peace and security.

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His Royal Highness Turki bin Faisal al-Saud, Chairman of the King
Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, was the Director
General of Al Mukhabarat Al A’amah, Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency
from 1977 to 2001, and has served as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the
United Kingdom and the United States.