Brazil criticized the “paralysis” of the UN Security Council on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine as it opened a G20 meeting Wednesday where the international community’s deep divisions were on display.
The outlook is bleak for progress on the thorny agenda of conflicts and crises gripping the planet as foreign ministers from the world’s biggest economies gather in Rio de Janeiro for the Group of 20’s first high-level meeting of the year.
Opening the two-day meeting, which featured US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Brazil’s top diplomat, Mauro Vieira, said the explosion of global conflicts shows international institutions like the United Nations are not working.
“Multilateral institutions are not properly equipped to deal with the current challenges, as has been demonstrated by the Security Council’s unacceptable paralysis on the ongoing conflicts” in Gaza and Ukraine, Vieira said, adding the situation was costing “innocent lives.”
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Founded in 1999, the G20 brings together most of the world’s biggest economies.Originally an economic forum, it has grown increasingly involved in international politics.
True. Where are the unified mechanisms to stop Russia/Israel/USA/China/all the other aggressors from ever continuing. The deciders don’t care because money is being made.
If the UN was able to do that without their consent, those states would just leave the UN though
Yeah. They’d just create their own UN with blackjack. Interventionalism is an interesting dilemma. Should peaceful nations be able to collaborate and swoop in to prevent wars as third parties?