Andreas von Bekerath,
ambassador of Sweden to Ukraine
”I don’t believe that the main problem is a lack of security structures. The challenge is rather to make sure that the we are able to respond through the existing structures when one country is flagrantly disregarding the security order and violates international law.”
Alexei Kuropiatnyk,
security department expert at Maidan of Foreign Affairs, a non-profit foundation
“There is a strong necessity to revise the existing security structures, both worldwide like the United Nations Security Council, which was initially designed as a model for a world government, and regional, like NATO.”
Oksana Osadcha,
principal policy coordinator at NATO liaison office (expressing personal view)
“The existing international security structure largely rests on the remnants of the institutions and legal framework of the bipolar system established after World War II. The dynamics of the post-Cold War reality has not been yet codified in the form of the new pacts and agreements accepted by the key global powers. For Moscow, for instance, the Cold War still continues, what has been clearly demonstrated by the Ukrainian crisis. Any new global security system is likely to reflect the solution of the conflicts between the West and the post-USSR Russia, as well as between the West and China. It will fix the real, not illusive, balance of powers in the increasingly multi-polar and interdependent world, where NATO will remain the most efficient collective defence organisation ensuring security of its members.”
Arja Makkonen,
ambassador of Finland to Ukraine
“I don’t see the need for a new security system to replace the existing one. The United Nations charter, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe principles and international law are the cornerstones contributing to world peace also in the future.”
Borys Tarasyuk,
member of parliament
“There are all necessary principles of international law in existing international documents. There is a security structure in place. What is lacking? A system of implementation. The United Nations Security Council is not effective because there is veto right of its permanent members. The reform of the U.N. Security Council is long overdue. An international Summit should be convened to amend the United Nations Charter with obligatory abolition of veto right and introduction of international mechanism of implementation of decisions.”
