On 11 December, from 10 am to 11.30 pm, the United Nations headquarters will host a meeting dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the entry to the UN of a heterogeneous group of countries, today belonging to different geopolitical areas: from Albania to Bulgaria, passander for Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Spain and finally Italy. It is a series of countries that entered the organization between 1955 and 1956, during one of the largest simultaneous expansions in UN history. Enlargement was the result of a political compromise between the United States and the Soviet Union, which until then had blocked different entrances for reasons of geopolitical influence. It is at that stage that the UN passed from 60 to 76 members, leaving behind the echoes of World War II. A dynamic that in the following years allowed the same organization to include new regional blocks, as happened for post-colonial Africa in the 1960s or for the States born from the dissolution of the USSR between 1991 and 1993.
The event will bring together diplomats and analysts who deal with international cooperation, where multilateralism has returned to the subject of discussion, often due to the slowness with which international organizations can respond to complex crises. Among the planned interventions are those of Martin Kimani, CEO and CEO of The Africa Center in New York, and experts such as Richard Gowan of the International Crisis Group. But also scholars such as Minh-Thu Pham of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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