• The majority of countries represented at the United Nations are totalitarian regimes. It is not surprising that the United Nations Organization tends to side with dictators: No dictator wants another dictator to be punished, because he could be next. On the other hand, a democratic country such as Taiwan is not represented.

• Five countries (USA, Russia, France, Britain, China) have veto rights and a permanent seat in the United Nations council: Why those five countries? Why France (60 million people) and not India (one billion people) or Brazil (200 million people)? Why China, which is a dictatorship and not even a legitimate country, and not, for example, Holland, which is a model of democracy and tolerance? Why not Germany, Italy and Japan? If the losers of World War II have to be punished forever, why not punish the loser of the Cold War or, for that matter, the loser of the One Hundred Year War or the loser of the Vietnam War?

• The United Nations Organization represents "regimes", not "nations". The Kurdish nation, for example, is not represented, because the Kurdish land has been split among Iran, Iraq and Turkey. The uighurs of Turkistan (today's Xinjian) are represented by the Chinese, which are their historical enemies. Ditto for Native Americans (Navajo, Sioux, Cheyenne, etc), who are represented by the Americans who destroyed them. Ditto for the Quechua of South America, who do not have a country. Nations that have been invaded (such as Tibet and Western Sahara, or Lithuania, Estonia, Ukrainia and Lettonia in the old Soviet days) are not represented.

• Oppositions are not represented. I did not vote for this president, therefore I am not represented at the United Nations. It turns out that the majority of Americans did not vote for this president, so the majority of Americans are not represented. Opposition parties who lost the elections by 1% are not represented at the United Nations at all. Opposition parties who cannot win an election in totalitarian countries are not represented at all. The United Nations is an organization of "governments", not of "nations": the vast majority of the world's population is not represented at the United Nations.

• Last but not least... The independent island of Nauru (20,000 people) counts as one. India (one billion people) counts as one. The will of one billion Indians matters as much as the will of 20,000 Nauruans, i.e. each Nauruan is 50,000 times more important than an Indian. A little unfair, isn't it?

It is about time that the United Nations Organization be replaced by a more relevant organization.

The European Union has provided an interesting model: Only democratic countries are allowed to join the club of European nations. Why a country has to be civilized and democratic in order to join the European Union while even cannibal dictators are allowed to join the United Nations?

The new United Nations Organization should be empowered with some real military and economic power, and voting rights should be proportional to population rather than to nuclear arsenals. At the same time, democracy should be a requirement for membership in this Organization.

Needless to say, any reform of the United Nations Organization will be boycotted by two kinds of countries:

1. All the dictatorships (including China) that would not qualify for membership, and

2. France, whose status as a world power will disappear the moment its veto power at the United Nations disappears.

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