United Nations Canada at Work

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United Nations Canada at Work
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This paper will discuss the United Nations in Canada. The UN has been involved in various activities in Canada such as maintenance of the international security and peace, developing of friendly relations among different nations, as well as cooperating internationally in finding solution to the social, economic, humanitarian, and cultural problems as well as promoting good standards of living as well as respect for the human fundamental rights. Indeed, the involvement of Canada in the UN affairs has extremely proved extremely fruitful.
Introduction
United Nations has been reported to be the only historical multilateral organization that has a membership approaching universality as well as having its agendas encompassing all the various areas of the human activities in the all the regions around the globe. Indeed, it is seen as the marketplace where much of the multilateral diplomacy of the world is conducted, the main mechanism where the various views within the international community are accorded expression, as well as a forum where grievances can be aired and consequently resolved incase the members are inclined. The ability of the UN to live up to the ideals of its founders as well as its potential is in most cases exclusively determined by the various 188 countries that collectively constitute the UN. Moreover, the successes of the UN are the successes of the member countries and its failures are their failures as well. However, the UN can only accomplish that which it is allowed by its members (The Canada Page, n.d).
Canada has been reported to be an active as well as a very committed participant of the United Nations since the time it was founded in the year 1945 in San Francisco, where it has been indicated that Canada was able to play a major role in the historical drafting of the UN Charter. Various individuals within Canada have been able to serve several vital roles within the UN, and it is reported that many of the great accomplishments of the UN have had a significant Canadian dimension. For instance, it is reported that John Humphrey was the main author of the historical Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Lester Pearson was also key in the invention of the peacekeeping concept where he later won a Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless efforts in resolving the Suez Crisis of the year 1956 and several others (The Canada Page, n.d). This paper will discuss the United Nations in Canada.
United Nations in Canada
The purposes of the United Nations are outline in the Charter and they include maintenance of the international security and peace, developing of friendly relations among different nations, as well as cooperating internationally in finding solution to the social, economic, humanitarian, and cultural problems as well as promoting good standards of living as well as respect for the human fundamental rights. These as well as several other objectives underlying the UN have often animated Canadian defense and foreign policy from the onset. It is reported that within the past five years, Canada has actually made a very significant, sustained, and constructive contribution in all the various areas of the activity of UN such as security and peace, human rights, development assistance, economic, social, and environmental affairs (The Canada Page, n.d).
The UN being a cornerstone of the rules based on the international system, it has increasingly become a vital forum for influencing the global affairs, defending the sovereignty and security within a distinct stable global framework, promoting the Canadian economic interests and trade, projecting and protecting the Canadian values that includes equal opportunity, fairness, as well as the respect for the human rights. Living, the way Canada does within the shadow of the most influential and powerful nation globally, the UN is reported to be of prime significance in its efforts in counterbalancing the continental attractions to the establishment of a clear independent identity as well as having long term and sustained impact on the evolution of the global affairs (The Canada Page, n.d).
Describing the UN merely as a counterbalance greatly underrates its significance to Canada. Indeed, the international social and political issues that are significant mostly to the Canadians are the ones that the individual countries, acting individually, are so powerless to actually address effectively. The increased promotion of justice and human rights, reduction and prevention of the environmental degradation, poverty alleviation, as well as the promotion human security and development on the global basis, all these can only be made possible through multilateral negotiation and discussion. Indeed, the only global forum that is available is the UN. There is no surprise therefore that the support for the UN activities is deeply very entrenched throughout the whole Canadian society. Nevertheless, the UN has remained very relevant to the Canadians today as it was in the year 1945 (The Canada Page, n.d).
The UN has continued to be a key vehicle in pursuing the global security objectives of Canada. Cana...