The United Nations turns 70 on Saturday. Its founders, rebuilding the world from the ruins of World War II, had lofty and probably unreasonable expectations for what it could accomplish.
President Harry Truman said it was "designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members." Ralph Bunche, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who was involved in the U.N.'s creation declared that it represented "our one great hope for a peaceful and free world."
If only that were so.
Today, the U.N. is too corrupt and badly managed to do much good in many areas of its operations, and in others doing real harm. Its nearly obsessive determination to condemn Israel while letting several of the world's most loathsome and murderous tyrannies pass judgment on human rights would be farcical were it not such a disgrace, a malignant cancer in the conduct of international relations.
The U.N. is, in theory, an institution that can do much good, but it must return to its founding principles and focus on its mission of maintaining international peace and security and promoting actual human rights rather than those trumped up to suit the prejudices and strategic agendas of its most cynical members.
The President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), Vuk Jeremić delivered a lecture at ADA University, Azerbaijan’s top-tier educational institution entitled "Geopolitics of the Balkans and How it Relates to the Caucasus”.
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Vuk Jeremić lectures at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna
At the invitation of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, one of the most prestigious and oldest schools on the European continent, CIRSD President Vuk Jeremić delivered a lecture entitled “(Geo)politics of the Balkans: The Revenge of History”, on February 7th, 2023.
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Prof. Sachs: “Sanctions against Russia ineffective and contrary to international law”
CIRSD had the privilege to host one of the world’s brightest minds and most famous economists – Prof. Dr Jeffrey Sachs in a live discussion titled "The winter of Our Discontent".
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Central Asia: The Age of Reform
The Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) co-organized a conference on December 7, 2022, titled “Central Asia: The Age of Reform” at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, one of the most prestigious and oldest (1754) schools in Europe.
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