The United Nations Security Council, under China’s chairmanship for the month of August, held a session today which China had organized during the month, “Promote Common Security Through Dialogue and Cooperation.” While speakers for the 15 UNSC members did not exactly “stick to the topic,” there was a dramatic contrast between the two national representatives who spoke almost exclusively to denounce Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and nearly all the others who spoke, in one way or another, about a new world security and economic order.
All UNSC representatives spoke, along with Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the president of the 10th Review Council on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Gustavo Zlauvinen. Thirteen began by thanking China for organizing the session, and Guterres and Zlauvinen for their presentations. Two – the United States and Britain – thanked Guterres and Zlauvinen, and did not thank China for the session or its idea. The same two — along with the U.K.’s sometime Irish sidekick of late, simply denounced Russia, and used the same phrases: “member nations must be held accountable"; “Russia has torn up the [UN] Charter"; etc. They made, of course, reference to the importance of the NPT, whose long history of the boldest double-standards suggests that it be called the “No Power Treaty.”
