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UN Seccurity Council and Peacebuilding Commission are Instruments of Imperialist Aggression and Plunder
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
13 September, 2005
The UN World Summit on September 14 to 16 has a pretentious and
deceptive agenda, from supposedly solving global poverty, debt and
development to reforming the UN's two major organs - the Security
Council (SC) and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). However, the
real objective of US imperialism and its allies is to give United
Nations (UN) imprimatur to the US invasion and occupation of Iraq and
Afghanistan through the creation of a Peacebuilding Commission. This is
consistent with the role that the UN has played throughout much of its
sixty-year history: an instrument to window-dress the bullying by the
"great powers," notably the United States, of small and weaker
developing states.
The Peacebuilding Commission is purportedly a mechanism to bring
together "all stakeholders in and outside" the UN to "marshal resources
and advise… comprehensive strategies for peacebuilding and conflict
recovery" concerning "countries emerging from conflicts." In fact, it
seeks to provide the United States with a political and economic
mechanism that allows it to appear as exiting from Iraq but at the same
time to retain military bases for directing the puppet regime and
controlling the oil resources and all major business enterprises and
contracts.
The "coalition of the willing" cobbled by the US has practically
disintegrated and the US now finds itself sinking in the quagmire in
Iraq. It has already achieved its primary objective in invading Iraq,
which is to weaken and subjugate it on a long term basis. Before 1991
Iraq used to be a relatively strong client-state economically and
strategically but it repeatedly showed disobedience to US dictates. Now,
Iraq is in danger of disintegration as a nation-state and fragmentation
into three smaller and weaker entities organized along sectarian lines.
The US finds it convenient to use the UN in a futile attempt to cover
and share with other countries the rising political and material costs
of occupation and to counter the increasingly effective, broad-based
resistance of the Iraqi people against US imperialist domination.
The US has no intention of relinquishing its paramount role in
determining the strategic direction of post-Saddam Iraq. Through a
powerful Organizational Committee that includes all the permanent
members of the Security Council, the US is assured of a leading role in
the Commission. Moreover, since membership in the Organizational
Committee is based solely on the amount of regular and special
contributions to the UN, this Commission, despite its pretended holy
intentions, merely augments and reinforces the Security Council as an
instrument of aggression and plunder in the Middle East and farther
afield. The Peacebuilding Commission is intended to further unify the
imperialist countries against the people within the frame of the
US-instigated schemes of neoliberal globalization and escalating
repression and aggression under the pretext of "war on terror". The US
wants to avert the recurrence of recriminations among the Permanent
Members in the runup to the US-UK invasion of Iraq.
The US has so wantonly violated the norms and instruments of
international law and the principles and charter of the United Nations.
The invasion of Iraq is only one of a long list of cumulative examples
of such outlawry. The standing of the United Nations is at its lowest
point in its sixty-year history. The much-hyped UN World Summit is
touted as part of the attempt to rehabilitate the UN. But the
Peacebuilding Commission is precisely nothing but the discredited
Security Council in a more malignant and obnoxious form. It is in fact
the corporate board of a Holy Crusade by the imperialist countries
headed by the US in the 21^st century in order to further dominate the
Middle East and the rest of the world under the shibboleths of
neoliberalism and sham democracy.###
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