Reply #23: Wrong, the UN recognizes Nation-States [View All]

[genie_weenie]

Here is the Article you reference:

Article 51: Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defense shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.
emphasis added

So, if the Nation of Turkey wishes to fuck over the Kurdish people time and again they can since the Kurds fall under the boundaries drawn on a map. Or China can if it wishes to kill thousands in Tienanmen Square, since this is merely the "proper" Government of a Member maintaining order. The Roma get screwed and the Knights Hospitalier recognized since the no longer own "land".

The UN has floundered and failed for years in recognition of peoples who do not have a nation but are currently considered under the suzerainty of an established Nation. Members of the UN are Nations only. IMO, the Individual is the measure of things but as long as the UN is set up the way it is, it will merely be used to enforce Security Council Foreign policy, especially the US.