WHY HAS THE UNO RELINQUISHED ITS PROACTIVE PEACE-BUILDER’S ROLE AND INSTEAD ADOPTED GOOD OFFICES SYNDROME?

Sometimes back, in the context of flaring political situation between Pakistan and Bhaarat (India), Antonio Guterres, the United Nations’ General Secretary had washed his hands off and created a new political idiom by saying that he is willing to try to find a solution only if parties are willing to use his 'Good Office'.

His comment was most childish and unbecoming of an organization such as the UNO that is supposed to take proactive action to diffuse disasters in world, especially political ones.

You are not holding positions in the UNO just for time-pass. It is not a golf course where you go for enjoying, away from the pressing mundane worldly problems. It is not your friend’s house where you go and have a kitty party, unmindful of what is happening in the neighboring house or the street.

It is primarily due to this Good Offices syndrome that world today is a mute helpless witness to otherwise solvable political boiling pots such as the current Turkish aggression into Kurd-held areas.

The officials of UNO must come out of its safe environs and cocoon. They must indeed take initiative; meet warring sides even if uninvited. They must find ways and means to stop bloodshed among fighting sides. They must take all possible measures until the last moment to persuade parties involved in a conflict to come to the negotiating table and settle for a peaceful solution through peaceful dialogue and mutually beneficial negotiations in a Win-Win Diplomatic mode.

- Dr Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee

(Author is a noted citizen-Economist, political scientist, peace crusader, internet-based Geographer, Astro-physicist and author of several most influential books)