They might affect some of this stuff if they weren't trying to dance to several political tunes at the same time. Our countries are a part of that community, and on our behest they weaken it constantly. We are the ones who are making the UN ineffective. rkzenrage raised the issue about America possibly vetoing this bill. It would not be the first time that great ideas in the UN were subverted or destroyed by a couple of major nations.
Even so, it still ameliorates some of what goes on in the world. There have been successes, they just tend to a smaller scale.
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