Time is ripe for a reform in the UN Security Council, an American expert on UN affairs says, stressing that the organization is "ill-equipped" to solve global issues.
"There has to be a place where business is not as usual; where a small number of countries make decisions," Thomas G. Weiss told Press TV's Autograph on Thursday.
He voiced concerns over the current UN system, which gives a veto power to a small number of countries -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.
"Six decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system-related agencies and programs are perpetually in crisis," said Weiss, who is the presidential professor of political science at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
He further stressed that no UN institution should be based on the past.
"While World War I and II gave rise to the groundbreaking efforts at organizations in 1919 and 1945, the UN today seems ill-equipped to deal with modern challenges to world order."
"Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9/11 [attacks] has led to the creation of next generation of a multi-level institution," Weiss concluded.
In his book titled What's Wrong with the United Nations (and How to Fix It)?, Weiss has focused on the political aspects of the UN reform, sparking widespread debates among the students, scholars and policymakers concerned about the future of international organizations.
