UN Chief 'Slams' World Leaders Who Ignore UN's Own Charter
Guterres decries world leaders for 'putting international cooperation on a deathwatch,' a poignant observation from an organization repeatedly sidelined by its most powerful members. He implies the US specifically for slashing contributions and tells the UN to 'adapt or die.' (Perhaps 'adapt' means continuing to issue strongly worded letters while member states, like Israel, systematically defy
resolutions, backed by US vetoes, as seen 46 times during Netanyahu's previous terms alone against resolutions critical of Israel, according to UN records via the US State Department archives.) One might wonder if the UN’s ‘deathwatch’ began not with funding cuts, but with its consistent failure to enforce international law against those with enough military and economic might to simply ignore it.
The 'lack of cooperation' Guterres identifies is less a global malaise and more a feature of a system where a few powerful nations dictate terms, while the rest are expected to 'cooperate' with their unilateral actions.