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5868 Fwd: Businessworld column yesterday

Jose Molano, Jr.

Nov 25, 2016

---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Jose Molano, Jr. <jomolano@...>

Date: Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Businessworld column yesterday
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Hi Tess,
Thanks for another of your incisive Business World
articles, this one with something about the Duterte
style.
Your article mentioned that Duterte has called the
United Nations "stupid". I read elsewhere that he has
also called it "useless" (perhaps because of less than
complete success in preventing wars). The kindest you
might say about a head of state who labels the UN
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is one who
chooses
to be ignorant
the
international system. The UN is not a supranational
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organization (which could exercise
hierarchical
authority over its members), but an international
organization that operates according to a conciliar form
of authority because all its individual members are
sovereign. The actions of the UN can only be possible
to the extent of the collective resolve of its
membership, and in matters of intervention to preserve
the peace, the unanimous agreement of the ve
permanent members of the Security Council is an
essential requisite. Hence, the inability of the UN to
always act resolutely is symptomatic of the realities of
a world of 195 diverse sovereign states.

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But Duterte also seems to be ignorant of other work

that the UN has relentlessly pursued within the existing
world order. The organization has succeeded in
promoting self-rule and decolonization in a number of
territories after WW II. The work of the various UN
Specialized Agencies have brought about improved
food and agricultural production, wider literacy, better
maternal and child health, prevention of spread of
deadly epidemics, lower mortality rates and higher life
expectancy, trained manpower, labor protection and
better labor standards, higher incomes and improved
living standards, among others, in almost all member
developing countries. The UN is credited for having set
time bound sustainable development goals for the
international community, and has taken initiatives to
promote protection of the environment and biodiversity
in the light of climate change and other threats to life
on the planet. These are some of what the UN system
has been working at to make the world a better place
for the human race, facts which Duterte chooses to
ignore or seems to be ignorant about.
I was oored when I rst read about Duterte's call for a
triumvirate with China's Xi and Russia's Putin to lead "a
new world order". What is he talking about? (you called
it braggadocio). Coming from the Duterte it could just
as well be another uninformed pronouncement. Duterte
is probably clueless about the present world order that
is based on the nation state system that emerged from
the treaty of Westphalia in 1648. No system has
evolved since the end of the thirty years war in Europe
to take the place of the Westphalian order (of states
with inviolable territories) as the basis for any world
order, be it an international organization (League of
Nations, UN), or a supranational body (EU/EC), or
regional organization (ASEAN), or alliance. Unless
Duterte is able to make clear what he proposes to take
the place of the nation state in his "new world order",
what he says could only be taken, as usual, with
wonder and amusement. I suspect that like countless
others, the more deliberate characters Xi and Putin may
have already exchanged notes about being
embarrassed by the importuning of an upstart
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Regards,
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Teresa S. Abesamis

<tsabesamis0114@...> wrote:
HI,Friends,

Sharingmypieceyesterday.

Best,

Tess

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