The pathetic attempt of coup in the UNSC

At June 25th 1950, the United Nations Security Council approved the Resolution 82, condemning North Korea for the instability in the Korean Peninsula. That was a huge diplomatic victory for the United States, now able to attack the Northern Koreans with UN approval, and a huge defeat for the Soviet Union, that, absent in the meeting in protest against the UNSC, could not veto the resolution.

This article, though, is not about the Cold War. It’s about the present. Today, at the very November 2nd 2018, the United States have tried to take advantage on the late arrival of the Russian — and Somali — delegation to pass a desfigurated version of the resolution already in course, with some changes in favour of the interests of the United States.

But this time it didn’t work out fine for the US. As the resolution proposed contained stretches from the original resolution, written partially by both Russian and Somali delegations, the resolution is been considered as plagiarism, since the Russian and Somali delegations — locked outside of the room — did not sign or authorise the use of this document.

Therefore, the signataries of this new resolution were forced to withdraw from it or face the consequences of bringing a pirated — oh, the irony — document to the Council.