Me and United Nations

Today I was in the United Nations headquarter. 1 av./45 street, NYC. Nice place, nice guard, good tour. I want to emphasize that the buildigns are very modest both inside and outside. I agree with that, because the status is not established through surface gloss but through real work.

It is said that the buildings were build in 1950-s and 1960-s, and the UN start renovation works this season. And it will cost an arm and a leg. Visitors tour includes observing the most impressive gifts to UN from different countries and the most of such gifts actually were from the East: Thailand, China, Arabic Emirates, Ukraine (come on, I suppose that Ukraine and Russia are more eastern areas than western).

The General Assembly Hall was huge. I didn't know that the places of the country members are ordered randomly each year not to discriminate anyone by its alphabetic name. Each country may have to 6 representatvies at the sessions.

I made the picture with carton Ban Ki Moon, which was quite pretty, and made my pic with a took-off shoe like Nikita Khrushchev who on October 12, 1960 during 15th UN Assembly took off his shoe and started banging his shoe in the table. I like this one especially.

And a few serious things to end it up. As I told above the status is not established through surface gloss but through real work. There is an inscription, someone's citation on the one of the UN walls inside the building, which say that UN have not been created to get people to the paradise but to save them from hell. Come on guys! What are you taling about? Even Secutrity Council does not control the situation. Wars, invasions, no one obeys to a veto anymore. Hunger and poverty keep increasing.

The U.N. became something symbolic and useless. It seems that the UN is looking forward for the same destiny as for League of the Nations.