Intelligence Squared

The United Nations is terminally paralysed: the democratic world needs a forum of its own (2016x12)

Air date: Mar 24, 2016

In January 2009, a panel of experts came to the Intelligence Squared stage to debate the motion 'The United Nations is terminally paralysed: the democratic world needs a forum of its own'.Speaking for the motion were Radek Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland; Robert Kagan, an expert in US National Security and Foreign policy; Denis Macshane MP, former Minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth office.Speaking against the motion were Sir Jeremy Greenstock, UK Ambassador to the United Nations during the Iraq war; Shashi Tharoor, who served 29 years at the UN; and Lord Malloch Brown, former Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations.The debate was chaired by BBC World News presenter Zeinab Badawi.