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of the characteristics of the new international disorder is to ignore the role
of international organisations. The conventions, resolutions, principles and
values, which the experience gained during the several decades that followed
the Second World War has built up, are being set aside. The United Nations
System has been relegated to a little corner of the international relations map.
It is simply ignored. Whose fault is it? That’s a matter for a longer debate, but
what is worth emphasising now is that nobody listens to the voices that
emphasise the importance of multilateral responses and international
cooperation. We are back to country-specific decisions, to the primacy of national
interests seen in isolation, to relations of force. We have moved back in
history, hiding behind national borders. It is simply unacceptable. It leads to
conflict and instability.
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