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Is the UN Security Council obsolete?

Shani Rozanes | Waslat Hasrat-Nazimi
April 12, 2025

Is the UN Security Council fit for purpose? Are changes needed to make it more effective — in Gaza, in Ukraine? Or is something more radical required — scrapping the veto? DW’s security podcast Global Eyes takes a look.

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Did Prime Minister Narendra Modi have it right, when he recently said the UN was irrelevant? 
Given Trump’s trade war, the war in Gaza, a nonexistent ceasefire in Russia’s war against Ukraine — where is the UN Security Council in solving these conflicts? Is the UN even relevant to a solution? Can the Security Council be reformed, does it need new permanent members added to better reflect the changes in geopolitics? And how do the P5, the current permanent members of the Security Council, use their veto power? Our guests, former UN legal officer Mona Ali Khalil and Security Council expert Alexandra Novosselof, join our hosts to ask: Is the UN obsolete?

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