RT today posted a long op-ed by Dmitri Medvedev, former Russian Prime Minister and now deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, in which, among other things, he stressed the urgency of a face-to-face summit of the Permanent Five members of the UN Security Council—Russia, the U.S., China, France and the U.K. After emphasizing the role of the UN in arms control, he wrote: “We hope that the UN Security Council will hold a face-to-face summit of the nuclear five to discuss the most pressing problems of humankind.”
The occasion of Medvedev’s op-ed is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the UNO. “Despite all the problems and crises that the United Nations and its member states have faced over these years, it is hard to disagree that it is largely thanks to the international legal and political mechanisms established by the UN Charter that we managed to avoid plunging into an all-out third world war and deal with many critical issues when shaping the post-war world order,” Medvedev wrote. “I will remind you that, when the UN founding members, including the U.S.S.R., created the Organization, they formulated its mission, which includes three principles: commitment to a stable and safe world, promotion of human rights and building a more just world order.”
