opinion

Massacre and destruction, hunger and poverty and acts of racial discrimination were rampant in different parts of the world due to high-handedness and arbitrariness of the hegemony-seeking forces last year, too.

It is the common desire of humankind to live while strengthening friendship and cooperation in a peaceful and prosperous world, and genuine international justice should be obtained to fulfil it. 

It is just international justice that high-handedness and arbitrariness, double standard and injustice of the hegemony-seeking forces are rejected in the international arena and all international issues are resolved impartially in line with the independent demands and interests of each country and nation.  

The US-led hegemony-seeking forces openly ignore the basic principles of international relations recognized in the world to realize their greedy ambition. 

A typical example is the Middle East situation which has aroused unrest and concern, denunciation and anger in almost all countries. 

Though the centuries-old Palestine-Israel conflict finds its historical origin in the long-standing national and religious confrontation, the root cause of the prolonged conflict is that the basic principle of sovereign equality in international relations is being disregarded. 

In 1947 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution, partitioning the Palestinian territory into two parts and drawing the boundary line so that Arab and Jewish states could coexist there. Israel has behaved imprudently  since its founding, fighting a series of aggressive wars to expand its territory several times and gaining the status as a UN member state. The Palestinians, however, have been deprived of their land and wandered about for decades. And they have not yet exercised their sovereignty as a fully independent state in the international arena. 

Therefore, it is the primary condition for the settlement of the Middle East issue conforming with the basic principles of international relations to put an end to Israeli occupation and protect the legitimate interests and sovereign rights of the Palestinian people. According to this demand of the international community, the issue of admitting Palestine as a full member of the UN was brought up again for discussion in the UN in April last year. But the US exercised its veto and the issue failed to cross the threshold of the UN Security Council.

Though the international peace-keeping order was established by the UN to prevent aggression and preserve peace in the disastrous aftermath of the Second World War, it is openly ignored by the US and other hegemony-seeking forces.

If such highhandedness and arbitrariness are allowed in the international arena, neither global peace nor the independent development of the sovereign states and genuine international justice can be realized.

It is important to resolutely reject the double standards of the hegemony-seeking and dominationist forces and guarantee impartiality in all international issues.

The world anti-terrorism strategy of the UN adopted at the UN General Assembly in 2006 specified measures to be taken by the UN member states and international and regional organizations to jointly combat terrorism. But the US abuses the fight against terrorism as a space for maintaining its domination and expanding its hegemony, pretending to respond to the anti-terrorist efforts of the international community.

They recklessly brand sovereign states they see as contrary to their interests as “state sponsors of terrorism”. They also encourage terrorism by delivering funds and lethal weapons to the Ukrainian puppets and Israel and patronize and back their heinous terrorist crimes in the international arena.

The shameless double standards applied by the US seriously hinder international efforts against terrorism and actively encourage the revival of extremists. 

The Gaza crisis and the Ukrainian dispute have also lasted year after year because the US and the West persistently turn their faces away from the principle of fair and peaceful settlement of the issues and continue to drive their stooges to the proxy wars for their interests.

The unfair international political current of today that injustice of the hegemony-seeking forces is rampant is not the trend of the times.

The world progressive people longing for truth and justice should turn out for achieving genuine international justice irrespective of the differences in political view, religious belief and the level of economic and cultural development.

Genuine international justice should be obtained through struggle as it cannot be achieved only by wishing.