79th Session of United Nations General Assembly
UN Urgently Requires Decisive Pact for the Present to End U.S./Zionist Genocide
On September 22, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted its agenda under the theme: Pact for the Future. This is deceptive because the peoples of the world cannot hold the future to account, only the present and this is where they demand decisive action be taken today. The urgent need is to stop the U.S./Zionist state of Israel from committing genocide against the Palestinian people and now war against Lebanon and threatening to do the same to any country in the region which refuses to help it realize its criminal aim of eliminating the Palestinians.
The actions of the U.S.
imperialists and their cabal of partners in crime include those
of the Zionist state of Israel whose war crimes have gone way
beyond the beyond. This cabal also includes the big European
powers and European Union as well as Canada, all of which
finance and prop up the criminal state of Israel and its
genocide. The peoples of the world demand that these criminals
be stopped and held to account. Attempts have been made to lay
concrete charges against the heads of state and high officials
of these countries and international organizations for violating
international law and refusing to implement the rulings of the
International Court of Justice as concerns Israel's genocide and
occupation of Palestine. A big problem remains the lack of power
of the member states of the United Nations whose General
Assembly is beholden to the Security Council whose five members
have veto power when it comes to taking action. Meanwhile, the
U.S. imperialists and their cabal of criminal partners get away
with their fraudulent rules-based international order which they
make up as they go. Thus they fraudulently claim that Israel has
the right to commit genocide to defend itself against the
resistance to its occupation and crimes.
Instead of addressing this problem squarely, Heads of State and government taking part in the General Debate at the 79th Session of the General Assembly "made 56 pledges to action seeking to protect the needs and interests of present and future generations amid the climate change crisis and conflict currently gripping the globe," the UN news agency reports.
Many speakers are addressing the need to reform the Security Council of the United Nations and other "global institutions vital to maintaining peace," but the elephant in the room remains how the U.S. is using the veto accorded to the five permanent members, without accountability for its actions. The genocide of the Palestinian people and nation continues because current structures enable Israel to violate international law and commit genocide.
The General Assembly adopted the resolution titled "The Pact for the Future" (A/79/L.2) without a vote, but not before defeating a motion by the Russian Federation to discuss the text further. "It would have been optimal not to put forward this non-consensus-based text, but to continue negotiations until this document finally is acceptable to all," the representative of the Russian Federation said. He explained that his proposed amendment does not ignore the needs of the Global South but seeks to protect them from pressure from the "collective West," which has not honoured its previous obligations. And "now they are hiding behind the backs" of the Global South, he said.
This article was published in
September 25, 2024
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