Statement by Grigory Karasin, Chairperson of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, at a special briefing “Parliaments at the UN, for a more effective multilateralism to address global challenges”
Mme. Chair,
Colleagues,
Overcoming global challenges and threats requires the unification of the entire world community. We can’t do that without strengthening loyalism to the Charter of the World Organization at its core. Only then can we speak of true multilateralism.
But what we see is the introduction of some “rules-based order” – a notion which conceals an attempt to lock the process of making key global decisions in backroom formats within the “сoalitions of the willing” so to say by taking it beyond the United Nations.
Ad hoc partnerships of nonuniversal composition are formed beyond the World Organization, and that is bad. Examples: Alliance for Multilateralism, Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, etc.
The hallmark of the “rules-based order” is the attempt to privatize the secretariats of international organizations, including the UN, put them at the service of their interests, force the staff of multilateral structures to compromise the principle of impartiality in their work.
Russia, in turn, promotes a unifying, constructive agenda. In particular, it supports the activities of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations.
To finalize, let me mention international organizations that promote true multilateralism like the Eurasian Economic Union, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the G20.
