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نامه به كوفی عنان
کورش زعیم
موضوع: یک پیشنهاد برای انجام اصلاحات در
نمایندگی کشورها در مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل
عالیجناب کوفی عنان
دبیر کل سازمان ملل متحد،
اکنون که شما انجام اصلاحاتی ضروری، هرچند دیرهنگام، را درساختار ومدیریت سازمان ملل بگونه ای ستایش انگیز پیشگام شده اید تا این سازمان جهانی توان رویارویی با واقعیت ها و چالش های روز را پیدا کند، من مایل هستم پیشنهادی را که امیدوارم شما، اگر تا کنون در فهرست تغییرات و بهبودهای پیشنهادی شما قرار نگرفته، مورد توجه قرار دهید، بشرح زیر تقدیم دارم.
هنگامی که پیمان ایجاد سازمان ملل در سال 1945 امضاء شد، تنها 51 کشور مستقل در جهان وجود داشت که آنرا امضاء کردند و به عضویت آن درآمدند. امروز، عضویت سازمان ملل، بیشتر به علت استقلال یافتن سرزمین های مستعمره و فروپاشی شوروی، بیش از چهاربرابر شده است. در میان 51 کشور نخستین، فقط رژیم های معدودی از آنها را می شد دموکراسی خواند. اکنون، نه تنها شمار عضوها رشد کرده، بلکه شمار کشورهای دارای سامانه های دموکراتیک دولتی هم بطور قابل ملاحظه ای افزایش یافته است.
لیکن، همه دولتهای عضو سازمان ملل نماینده راستین ملت های خود نیستند، و نمایندگان کشورها که در مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل می نشینند همگی گماشتگان دولتهای متبوع خود هستند. بحثهایی که در مجمع عمومی درباره بهبود روابط کشورهای عضو، بهبود شرایط زندگی مردم کشورها و، بویژه، مسائل حقوق بشر انجام می گیرد، غالبا" توسط نمایندگانی که دولت هایشان از پشتیبانی مردمشان برخوردار نیستند به بن بست هایی بر می خورد. دولت های خودکامه گرایشی به تصویب یا اجرای مصوباتی که اثر منفی بر پایه های قدرت و منافع گروهی آنها داشته باشد ندارند، هرچند که برای منافع مردمشان سودمند باشد.
پیشنهاد من برای اصلاحات این است که مجمع عمومی بیشتر نماینده "ملت ها" باشد تا "دولت ها". مقررات نمایندگی در سازمان ملل باید بگونه ای تغییر یابد که بر پایه آن همه نمایندگان کشورها در مجمع عمومی، در کشورهای خود در یک انتخابات آزاد به سمت نمایندگی در مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل انتخاب شده باشند. این قانون نه تنها بمجمع عمومی مشروعیت بیشتری توسط مردمی که این سازمان برای خدمت به آنان بوجود آمده می بخشد، بلکه نمایندگی در سازمان ملل را به یک مسئله مهم سیاسی و انتخاباتی در همه کشورهای عضو، و نمایندگی در مجمع عمومی را به یک رسالت و افتخار تبدیل می کند نه فقط یک شغل.
مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل باید تبدیل به یک سازمان جهانی نماینده ملت های جهان شود، همانگونه که یک پارلمان در یک کشور دموکراتیک نماینده ملت خود می باشد. مردم جهان نمی توانند بپذیرند که سرنوشت کشورشان توسط کسانی تعیین شود که خود در قدرت طلبی، خفقان و فساد کشورهایشان شرکت دارند. این پیشنهاد اصلاحات، به باور من، از بنیادی ترین و ضروری ترین گام ها در راستای پیشرفت سازمان ملل است، اگر قرار است سازمان ملل را، همانگونه که از آغاز پنداشته شده، بعنوان یک پارلمان و قانوگزار جهانی بشناسیم.
با گرامیداشت،
کورش زعیم
5 نوامبر 2005
November 5, 2005
His Excellency Kofi A. Anan
The Secretary-General of
The United Nations
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017, U. S. A.
Sub.: A Proposal for Reform at the UN
For General Assembly Representation
Your Excellency,
Now that you have embarked on the much needed and long overdue reforms at the United Nations in an admirable effort to enable this world body to face up to the present day realities and challenges, I would also like to make a proposal which I hope you will take into consideration, if it is not already included in your agenda of proposed changes and improvement.
When the UN Charter was signed back in 1945, there were only 51 independent countries in the world that signed the Charter and became members. Today, the UN membership has more than quadrupled, mostly due to the independence of former colonial territories and the break-up of the former Soviet Union. Out of the original 51, less than a handful could have been referred to as democracies. Now, not only the membership has grown in number, but the number of countries with democratic system of government has also grown appreciably.
However, not all the member governments truly represent their own people; and the UN representatives sitting in the General Assembly are all government appointees. The debates in the General Assembly on issues relating to improvement of relationships among member countries, improvements in living conditions of the populations of member countries and, particularly, the human rights issues often run into obstacles caused by those member states which do not enjoy true support of their people. Autocratic governments are not likely to approve or enact measures negatively affecting their bases of power and group interests, no matter what the benefits to the people.
My proposal for reform is to make the General Assembly more representative of the "peoples" rather than the "states". In order to accomplish this, the UN rules on representation should change to require that all representatives to the General Assembly must be elected in free elections in their respective countries for the specific purpose of representing the nation at the UN. This rule not only grants the General Assembly more legitimacy by the peoples it is chartered to serve, but it makes UN representation an important political and election issue in every country and the UN representation an honor to serve rather than just a job.
The General Assembly must become a truly representative world body, much like a parliament is in a democratic country. No longer can people of the world accept the fate of their countries be decided by persons who themselves are often participants in power mongering, repression and corruption. This proposed reform will be, in my opinion, one of most essential and necessary steps toward progress of the UN, if we are going to see it become a powerful world parliament and law-making body, as it was destined to.
Respectfully submitted,
Kourosh Zaim
Author & Political Activist
November 5, 2005
His Excellency Kofi A. Anan
The Secretary-General of
The United Nations
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017, U. S. A.
Sub.: A Proposal for Reform at the UN
For General Assembly Representation
Your Excellency,
Now that you have embarked on the much needed and long overdue reforms at the United Nations in an admirable effort to enable this world body to face up to the present day realities and challenges, I would also like to make a proposal which I hope you will take into consideration, if it is not already included in your agenda of proposed changes and improvement.
When the UN Charter was signed back in 1945, there were only 51 independent countries in the world that signed the Charter and became members. Today, the UN membership has more than quadrupled, mostly due to the independence of former colonial territories and the break-up of the former Soviet Union. Out of the original 51, less than a handful could have been referred to as democracies. Now, not only the membership has grown in number, but the number of countries with democratic system of government has also grown appreciably.
However, not all the member governments truly represent their own people; and the UN representatives sitting in the General Assembly are all government appointees. The debates in the General Assembly on issues relating to improvement of relationships among member countries, improvements in living conditions of the populations of member countries and, particularly, the human rights issues often run into obstacles caused by those member states which do not enjoy true support of their people. Autocratic governments are not likely to approve or enact measures negatively affecting their bases of power and group interests, no matter what the benefits to the people.
My proposal for reform is to make the General Assembly more representative of the "peoples" rather than the "states". In order to accomplish this, the UN rules on representation should change to require that all representatives to the General Assembly must be elected in free elections in their respective countries for the specific purpose of representing the nation at the UN. This rule not only grants the General Assembly more legitimacy by the peoples it is chartered to serve, but it makes UN representation an important political and election issue in every country and the UN representation an honor to serve rather than just a job.
The General Assembly must become a truly representative world body, much like a parliament is in a democratic country. No longer can people of the world accept the fate of their countries be decided by persons who themselves are often participants in power mongering, repression and corruption. This proposed reform will be, in my opinion, one of most essential and necessary steps toward progress of the UN, if we are going to see it become a powerful world parliament and law-making body, as it was destined to.
Respectfully submitted,
Kourosh Zaim
Author & Political Activist
