U.N. Reform: the road to global governance
CFP  | April 4, 2005 | Henry Lamb
 

Kofi Annan’s long-awaited reform report, "In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all," is a laundry list of changes designed to strengthen the United Nations’ grasp on global governance. Virtually every recommendation in Annan’s report is a regurgitation of recommendations first advanced a decade ago by the U.N.-Funded Commission on Global Governance.

When the Commission on Global Governance’s final report, Our Global Neighborhood, was released in 1995, it went almost unnoticed outside the U.N. activist community. The dramatic changes the report recommends, however, have been bubbling up through the U.N. ever since.

The U.N.’s non-binding Millennium Declaration captured the goals of the Commission on Global Governance, and expressed them in language acceptable to more than 150 heads of state at the Millennium Summit in 2000.

Now comes the official request by Kofi Annan to incorporate many of those recommendations into structural changes that will be legally binding on member nations.

The Commission on Global Governance recommended that the U.N. Security Council be expanded to 23, and that the veto power, and permanent member status be removed from the five current permanent members. . . . .
 

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