Pivotal reforms for the U.N

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During the latest session of Woo Says, Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Woo Wing Thye proposed reforming the United Nations to better address today’s global challenges.

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00:00In order to meet the current challenges of the world, Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr. Wu Wingtai

00:05suggests a reform of the UN. He touched about this during the later session of Wu Seis.

00:13But we could, instead of giving up on them, we should work to reform them.

00:21For example, reforming the United Nations is exceedingly important.

00:26Just look at the most important part of the United Nations, which is the Security Council.

00:37The Security Council has as permanent members the US, Russia, China, UK, and France.

00:50This was the power structure at the end of World War II.

00:54But if you look at it today, that is just way out of line with what the world distribution of economic weight is.

01:09So I think that we need to do two things.

01:17We need to expand the, we got to make the United Nations reflect more like what the world is like today.

01:25Specifically, we should bring two more countries from Asia into the Security Council.

01:35Two more members from Latin America and two members from Africa.

01:45I think that would be the first step.

01:49The second step is to amend the system of veto.

01:56We mustn't let a situation where one country can stand against the will of the rest of the world.

02:04So you might have changed the veto system such that you need at least three countries to veto before it could be a veto.

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