The current undecisiveness of the UN Security Council concerning the developments in Burma mirrors the inability of the Council to act according to its mission and uphold the normative underpinnings of the UN Charter.
Even though there has been great hope since the end of the Cold War in the 90’s that the time of stagnation might be over and that a time of constructive cooperation has finally come, Burma could be the final turning point from a brief intermezzo of hope to a backlash into united stalemate. Looking at the fragmentation of national interests in the UN Security Council in the light of exlusively distributed vetopower, the calls for a reform, and especially a democratization of the UN could not be any louder than in these days of global despair over the brutal abolition of a peaceful strive by the burmese people for a way out of decades of suppression, fear and tremendous human rights violations.
A UN that misses to react appropriately on this issue will loose its credibility as valuable organisation in the promotion of world peace, once more and very profound.
Great work.