Letters / Stumbling block
All that Jean Urquhart MSP suggests about an arms embargo on Syria and the United Nations security council involvement (Why Syria matters; SN 8/8/12) could happen except for one stumbling block, which is Russia who willingly signed the Charter in 1945 and then created the iron curtain and cold war. Russia today is no different about any compromise.
The United Nations in this era needs to be re-addressed and stronger. The charter should be ‘the will of the people to use for peace in the world and not simply about documents’, which was stated by the United States secretary of state in its historical 1945 signing.
There will always be problems in countries such as Syria due to culture and religion where people only see the United Nations not as a particularly worrying interference.
Christine Donald
Sandwick
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