21st June, 2016.
The
United Nations was historically formed on January 1, 1942, with
representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers who met in
Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the
Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis
and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
At
the Conference in Queben, Canada, in August 1943, the Secretary of
State, Cordell Hull and British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden agreed
to draft a declaration that included a call for “a general international
organization, based on the principle of sovereign equality of all
nations.” An agreed declaration was issued after a Foreign Minister’s
Conference in Moscow in October 1943.
When
President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Soviet Premier, Joseph Stalin
in Tehran, Iran, in November 1943, he proposed an international
organization comprising an assembly of all member states and a 10-member
executive committee to discuss social and economic issues. The United
States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and China would enforce peace as
“the four policemen.”
Meanwhile
Allied representatives founded a set of task-oriented organizations:
the Food and Agricultural Organization (May 1943), the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (November 1943), the United
Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (April 1944),
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (July 1944), and the
International Civil Aviation Organization (November 1944).
Representatives
from the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and China met at
Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, in August and September 1944 to draft
the charter of a post war international organization based on the
principle of collective security. They recommended a General Assembly of
all member states and a Security Council consisting of the Big Four
plus six members chosen by the Assembly.
Voting
procedures and the veto power of permanent members of the Security
Council were finalized at the Yalta Conference in 1945 when Roosevelt
and Stalin agreed that the veto would not prevent discussions by the
Security Council. Roosevelt agreed to General Assembly membership for
Ukraine and Byelorussia while reserving the right, which was never
exercised, to seek two more votes for the United States.
Representatives
of 50 nations met in San Francisco April - June 1945 to complete the
Charter of the United Nations. In addition to the General Assembly of
all member states and a Security Council of 5 permanent and 6
non-permanent members, the Charter provided for an 18-member Economic
and Social Council, an International Court of Justice, a Trusteeship
Council to oversee certain colonial territories, and a Secretariat under
a Secretary General.
The
Roosevelt administration strove to avoid Woodrow Wilson’s mistakes in
selling the League of Nations to the Senate. It sought bipartisan
support and in September 1943 the Republican Party endorsed U.S.
participation in a postwar international organization, after which both
houses of Congress overwhelmingly endorsed participation. Roosevelt also
sought to convince the public that an international organization was
the best means to prevent future wars.
The
Senate approved the UN Charter on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2.
The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945, after 29
nations had ratified the Charter. Thus the United Nations (UN) is an
intergovernmental organization aimed to promote international
co-operation. It is a replacement for the ineffective League of Nations,
the organization that could not maintain peace and order among nations.
The United Nations Head Quarters is in Manhattan, New York City.
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Outside
the U.N. building in New York, there is an inscription on the office
wall saying, "They will beat their swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they learn war anymore." A well versed Bible scholar would
immediately know that the inscription was a quotation from the prophecy
of Isaiah 2:4, which speaks of the much expected Messianic age when wars
and conflicts will cease to be on this planet earth.
Lots
of people have wondered why the United Nations which is not a religious
organization would borrow or quote from the Judeo-Christian book. The
answer is not far fetched that the United Nations through its charter
has assumed the arbiter for the world on all matters of right and wrong
between nations, and we generally agreed to the assumption. But the big
question has always been; in whose name and on whose authority does the
United Nations act and make its pronouncements?
Why
has it chosen the Judeo-Christian book as a reference mark to the most
needed world peace, yet it is not a religious organisation? What is the
template that the United Nations have left for the world to emulate by
quoting from a Judeo-Christian source? We can learn much from this
attitude that any authentic message is worth the attention of any
civilized person irrespective of the quarter it is coming from.
It
further throws more light on the fact that one has his liberty to
embrace any religion of his choice without anybody interfering and
provided it also promotes peace. Thus we see that the quotation from
the book of Isaiah 2:4 was a complete promotion of peace in a time of
war and conflict with the hope that war or conflict will no longer exist
in the history of mankind.
The
United Nations in a bid to continue to maintain the world peace and
orderliness, enacted charters on the rights of Indigenous People for
self-determination in every society where people’s political and
religious rights are infringed upon as commonly seen in Nigeria since
its inception. Since the formation of the United Nations, there has been
more new countries that emerged through this charter meant to end
hostilities by host rude and brutal countries.
Developed
and civilized countries welcomed it and allowed the UN charter take its
course. USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Eritrea, South Sudan, etc. It
is time for Nigeria to go the same way. Her sins have reached the peak
and nothing will hinder her dying either naturally or violently.
The
choice is left for her to make. Its leaders can go on with their hatred
and lies to incarcerate those who challenged their atrocities. It is
just a matter of time before the final requiem of the mother-whore is
announced. We eagerly await its demise as it approaches speedily.
By Ezza Heritage.
Edited by KeneChukwu HalleluYah Okekenta
Published By Nwosu C.S
For Biafra Writers
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