IN San Francisco (USA) On April 25, 1945, 50 countries held an international conference to create a new international order under the auspices of the United Nations. United Nations, whose goal will be to preserve peace and human rights after the devastating Second World War. From this date to the present day, many countries have become independent in Africa, Latin America and Asia integration into this international organization.

The UN was required to apply international humanitarian law in any war to prevent civilian deaths, and no member of the five permanent members could veto to block a resolution calling for a permanent and lasting ceasefire on humanitarian grounds.

Today we have conflicts A loop And Ukraine in which they participate Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, Russia and the USA.. Both conflicts continue to claim civilian lives and destroy cities such as Gaza, Khan Yunis and Bakhmut. In the case of Gaza, the conflict has left thousands of children and women dead and schools, hospitals and UN aid centers destroyed.

The UN failed to guarantee the sovereignty of internationally recognized territories

Gaza has been under blockade and siege by Israel for sixteen years, and the situation has worsened due to successive armed clashes between Hamas and the Israeli army. In the West Bank, the Palestinian National Authority was dissolved as an intermediary for the creation of a Palestinian state in the 1967 territories. 1948 to present.

In the case of Ukraine and the post-Soviet space, tensions are constant, since conflicts Nagorno-Karabakh, Georgia and Crimea.. The UN has failed to guarantee the sovereignty of internationally recognized territories.

An example can be given of non-autonomous territories, such as Western Sahara, Tibet and Samoa. Territories that have the right to self-determination by virtue of their colonial status. However, the countries that occupied these territories circumvented international law thanks to the veto power of the permanent members of the Security Council.

When the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres invokes Article 99 of the UN Charter to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, a proposal vetoed by the United States. In 2010, Mexico invited Morocco to investigate the arson of the Sahrawi camp of Gdeim Izik and its possible conviction, France threatened a veto, and the Security Council only deplored the violence.

The veto power of the five permanent members of the Security Council cannot be a carte blanche.

The veto power of the five permanent members of the Security Council cannot be a carte blanche to kill civilians and violate human rights.

Today, the UN includes more than one hundred and ninety countries, a reality that surpasses the reality of 1945, the reality that arose after two world wars. It’s time to change the veto power right to self-determinationveto power on respect for international humanitarian law, veto power on respect for human rights.

The interests of a veto power cannot override the Charter of the United Nations or its mission to promote peace and international humanitarian law.

Guaranteeing the rights of occupied peoples suffering from colonialism and apartheid ultimately means applying the Charter of the United Nations and guaranteeing the peace that inspired that organization after World War II.

No international order can justify the blind use of force and the extermination of people, so the UN has been left without substance, its founding charter not adapted to the reality of conflicts or challenges that require its action.

If we continue to use the veto to prolong conflicts whose legal nature is beyond question, allowing an occupying country to destroy occupied territory, we will finally put an end to the UN and its mission to preserve peace.

Ali Salem Iselmu He is a Sahrawi journalist and writer.