"Only when all its members - especially in the Security Council - possess equal power, and every decision and resolution is dealt with democratically, will the UN be effective and forceful."

So let's wind it up immediately, then, rather than continue forever ineffectively.

I personally vote for winding it up. Why should a mad theocratic government in Iran, or a totally corrupt government like Russia, or a massive human rights violator such as Sudan have the same rights and voting power as democracies such as US, UK, NZ, Canada and Australia etc.

A very small minority of governments in the world act in any way accountably and openly, with minimal corruption and minimal abuse of law and with true political equality amongst its citizens. A vast majority are corrupt, swaggering dictatorships - either civil or religious - and should have no rights to tell the world what it can or should do until their own countries join that small minority.

Kevin it is all very well to complain about the mess in Sudan and the theocrats in Iran but the reality is that Russia and the US are the world's biggest rogues.

The US has trained and armed more "terr'sts" than any country on earth in the School of the Americas (now Whisc) in Fort Benning, Georgia. They have "changed" more regimes, bombed more countries, inflicted more massacres and chaos on more countries than any other nation on earth since 1946.

Let's all stop being hypocrites and pretending we are the good guys while the US and UK give Israel their blessings to bomb Lebanon back 20 years, to destroy the infrastructure of the south and anything at all to do with shi'ite muslims.

What happened in Iraq is a catastrophe of mammoth proportions and every single moment of it has our hands on it, we all have the blood of tens of thousands of Iraqis on our hands via our deranged government.

Lebanon was a proxy war to see if it might work against Iran. It has left innocent Lebanese people without a life or means of existence based on the bogus notion that today's Lebanese Hezbollah is the same as the 1982 Hezbollah that was formed to kick out the invading Israelis'.

While we pretend to be the good guys we are the bad guys to the rest of the world.

I believe the UN needs to be wound up, as it now appears to be more of a hinderance to what needs to be done than a help. Yep wind it up.

Is there any wonder why there is an imbalance of power & influence in the UN.

"He who pays the piper calls the tune"

Those who are dissatisfied can start a reformation by contributing money/materials/personnel on a par with the West.

So close down the UN and then what?

Rely on USA and Russia to sort out the world's problems?

Stuff of nightmares.

Time to strengthen the UN instead of bickering about it.