Dominic Waghorn

It did, yeah.

And I think this is a question that I get asked probably

Amongst the most questions, which is what's the point of the U.N.

anymore?

Does it do any good and does it have any teeth?

And you're right, you have to sort of go back to its origins and remind yourselves that it was set up in the wake, the aftermath of World War II.

I've got the U.N.

Charter in front of me, and that was the charter that was adopted by 50 nations and then one more Poland joined a year or so later, back in 1945.

And in black and white, it kind of states that it's the mission statement for the U.N.,

It says, we the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person.

In equal rights of men and women and nations, large and small, and so on.

So it goes on.

So it's basically, yeah, it was set up by the world so that World War II and World War I can never happen again.

But also some of the things that the world had agreed on, like international law and new laws against crimes against humanity, the sort of agreed on principles and systems to make sure that those laws were imposed.

And it's part of that kind of post-war process.

set up that was designed to mean that the tragedy and trauma that the 20th century had meant for so many millions of people could not be repeated.

And the problem is, I think, we see it as a kind of world government, as a world authority.

And that's a misunderstanding.

It's a club of nations and it has advantages and disadvantages like all clubs do.

Yeah, that's right.