Restructuring of the United Nations

Devendra Joshi, 2 min read, September, 17, 2025

The United Nations was established in 1945 to maintain international peace and security, foster friendly relations among nations, promote social progress, and uphold human rights.

If we look at the achievements of the United Nations in the last 80 years, some commendable efforts come to mind in the areas of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (NTBT) and Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), Universal Declaration of Human Rights, protection of the rights of children throughout the world, assistance and protection to refugees and displaced persons, eradication of diseases like smallpox and the fight against polio and malaria, etc.

But nowadays the conflicts between many countries, spread of terrorism, increasing smuggling of narcotics and increasing demand for destructive weapons are vivid proofs of the failure of the United Nations.

The main reasons for this failure of the United Nations are lack of resources and control of a handful of powerful nations over it.

If the United Nations is to be made effective, then its entire structure needs to be reorganized. The following suggestions should be considered in this regard: -

• Permanent membership of the Security Council and their veto power to be abolished

• All member countries together elect members of an eleven-member executive committee. Its term should be two years. Members of any country will not be eligible to contest the executive election again for the next five years. This executive committee will take decisions by majority

• All member countries should give one or two percent of their annual income to the United Nations as a grant

• All countries to maintain police force only for internal security and crime control. The United Nations will have control over all armies and military weapons. International security and crime control will be under the United Nations. All countries will transfer their defines budget to the United Nations

• In the next five years, the United Nations will eliminate all nuclear weapons in a proper manner. And will reorganize by reducing the military strength to the required level. And will re-evaluate the budget as per the need and determine the percentage of donation from each country.

• Every quarter, the United Nations will present information about its activities and future programs to the General Assembly and seek guidance.

• Only those countries that accept all the above conditions will be able to become members of the United Nations.

This type of reorganization will not only reduce the defines budget of all countries considerably but will also help all countries in improving

relations with their neighbouring countries. Reduction in crime and improvement in social peace are expected.