A broad and determined offensive by the government of the United States is underway to hijack the United Nations (UN) and place it under its full control, according to analysts and experts in international politics consulted by the Latin American Circle for International Studies (LACIS). The LACIS is a private, non-profit organization, dedicated to analysis, reflection, research, and the exchange of information, with headquarters in Mexico City.
Washington began to infiltrate its unconditional supporters in some key positions in the operational levels of the UN’s political-administrative apparatus, with the complicity of the organization’s secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, LACISI specialists have charged.
With this base of support, the George W. Bush administration has preferred to cover its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with the flag of the United Nations, in a strategy that involves considerable military and financial resources. Behind the cover of the international organization, Washington is reinforcing its global hegemony and is finding that some of its allies are less reticent to follow along.
It must not be forgotten that the United States set off the scandal concerning the poor management of the Oil for Food Program for Iraq, on the basis of which it demanded a reform of the UN’s organizational structures and a thorough housecleaning of its key staff. As of 2005, the restructuring of the UN has strictly followed U.S. proposals, as they were raised by a special commission that was jointly presided over by the former leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, well known for his extreme right-wing political views.
UN Secretary General Ban received decisive support from the United States to become Kofi Annan’s successor, in exchange for functioning as a docile instrument of Washington’s geopolitical and geo-strategic platform. Thus far, all of his actions in the international scenario confirm this commitment.
Ban has been acting as a loyal servant of the interests of the United States and its allies and has discreetly but firmly reinforced U.S. positions within the leadership bodies of the UN. A particularly representative example is the case of the Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, the most influential face in the political field, which for the first time in decades was assigned to a representative of the United States, an ambassador, former under secretary of State, radical right activist, B. Lynn Pascoe.
Even though UN Secretary General Ban has maintained the Department of Disarmament Affairs, headed by the Japanese Nobuyasu Abe as under secretary general, at the same apparent level of priority that it had previously had, in practice, he has reduced its importance and resources, in accordance with the U.S. strategic vision that disarmament is unsuitable in the current state of affairs in the world.
It is not difficult to foresee that in the immediate future, the United States will use its main peon within the structure of the United Nations, the Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, Pascoe, as a battering ram for its most urgent geopolitical and geo-strategic interests.
Through this progressive infiltration in the decisive levels of the UN, Washington seeks to use the cover provided by the maximum international organization to even undertake military actions against those countries to which it has decided to assign the label of undemocratic, under conditions that it assumes to be favorable, without strong opposition from many governments and international public opinion.
It is, of course true, according to the Latin American specialists consulted by the LACIS, that this does not imply that the United States is abandoning its policy of acting unilaterally, refusing take the United Nations into account, and with complete scorn for what the rest of the world says.
It is important, therefore, to denounce the two variants of the U.S. strategy for hegemony, above all because in the immediate future, it is likely that Washington will maneuver within the United Nations to isolate and even exclude, to the extent that it is possible, the countries that oppose its plans for global domination.