What threatens the United Nations more than anything else, as has been most obscenely evident in the Syrian tragedy, is that the UN Charter assigns responsibility for international peace and security to the 15-member UN Security Council. Five Security Council members — the primary victors from the death heaps of the Second World War — hold veto power over its decisions. Britain, the United States and France are democracies, but Russia and China are not. They are police states.
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