Abstract
Still fully immersed in the devastations of World War II and keenly aware of the inability of the League of Nations to prevent it, the winning nations negotiating the Charter of the new United Nations in San Francisco in April–June 1945 aimed at creating a novel international organisation that embodied a new balance of power mechanism: a system focused on having one – powerful – executive organ and a plenary organ with more of a consultative function (Department of State, 2017). Thus, on one side, the UN system provided a Security Council (SC) – with a two- tiered membership constituted of five permanent members with veto-holding powers and six (later amended to ten) members elected on a rotating basis, with the power to issue binding resolutions. On the other side, the General Assembly (GA) would include every member of the organisation with an equal vote – but its resolution will have no binding force. Within the UN Charter, the SC would have the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, as well as enforcement of international law. ...
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2024
ISBN
9781032707655
Recommended Citation
Chiara Giorgetti, Strengthening the General Assembly, in Reinvigorating the United Nations (Markus Kornprobst & Sławomir Redo eds., 2024).
