António Guterres named as next Secretary-General of the United Nations - Polidicks

[t]http://i.imgur.com/xqtpCy7.jpg[/t] [url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/05/antonio-guterres-next-un-secretary-general[/url] [quote]António Guterres, the former Portuguese prime minister, will be the next UN secretary general, after the security council agreed he should replace Ban Ki-moon at the beginning of next year. In a rare show of unity, all 15 ambassadors from the security council emerged from the sixth in a series of straw polls to announce that they had agreed on Guterres, who was UN high commissioner for refugees for a decade, and that they would confirm the choice in a formal vote on Thursday. “Today after our sixth straw poll we have a clear favourite and his name is António Guterres,” the Russian UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters with his 14 council colleagues standing behind him. “We have decided to go to a formal vote tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, and we hope it can be done by acclamation.”[/quote]

I'm doing right now a optional subject for my degree, Contemporary International Relationships....and man....how come the UN can be so full of idiots? Literally idiots. Once you read about the balkans, rwanda, the conflicts in sierra leone and cote d'ivoire you can't help but think "What the fuck were these guys thinking?" In the balkans, they fucked up the interpretation of why the war was happening. Seems like they locked up the guys who read up Yugoslavia history and decided to go along on with a hunch about why things were happening. The result? Thousands of useless treaties and a huge clusterfuck which included among other things: Genocides, forced emigration, rapings, etc etc. In rwanda, they fucked up again why the thing was happening and how to handle it. The only guys who had the balls to do something were later on given the back by the UN. And in Cote D'Ivoire and Sierra Leone, they decided it was a good idea to ban the trade of diamonds. Right? Sounds as a good idea, huh? Wrong as fuck. Rebels kept financing themselves with the sale of cocoa and timber. Guess they also locked up the economic analysis deparment (Nevermind that if you sit down for a couple of seconds and look at some charts, it comes off as obvious that you won't do jack shit by preventing diamonds being sold).

[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;51156933]I'm doing right now a optional subject for my degree, Contemporary International Relationships....and man....how come the ONU can be so full of idiots? Literally idiots. Once you read about the balkans, rwanda, the conflicts in sierra leone and cote d'ivoire you can't help but think "What the fuck were these guys thinking?"[/QUOTE] the problem with the UN is that there are two, maybe 3 large forces that control its direction, the US, Russian, and chinese with individual states falling under the spheres of each of them

[QUOTE=Sableye;51156962]the problem with the UN is that there are two, maybe 3 large forces that control its direction, the US, Russian, and chinese with individual states falling under the spheres of each of them[/QUOTE] The entire UN security council has a lot of influence, not just US Russia and China

Wow I had completely forgotten this guy existed. He was prime minister when I was a wee bab. An undisclosed relative of mine worked right at his office and I used to run barefoot through the building past a grand staircase with a portrait of the guy everyday after grade school.