After all the wars and horrors thereof and more particularly the Second World War between the years 1939 to 1945, which saw the holocaust and the use of atomic bombs for the first time in human warfare, there was a real need to create a new organization to safeguard international peace and security and prevent such horrors ever happening again. The United Nations Organization or the UN in short was thus created, but ever since, however, greedy nations have always caused conflicts, and the world is never at peace.
There are always wars and conflicts in a part of the world or another. The irony of the matter is that many of those wars are actually caused by the very founders of the UN, disrespecting the very rules they put in place to prevent conflicts and horrible wars.
Millions have died since World War II in various parts of the world as a result of wars that could have been prevented should the nations of the world respected the international conventions and laws they put in place in the first place. Many such wars are going on at the time of this writing and others are brewing.
The key purposes of the UN include maintenance of peace and security, development of friendly relations among nations, cooperation of nations in solving international issues and harmonizing the actions of nations in order to achieve these goals.
The most important elements of its rules, in this regard, include among others prevention of nations aggressing each other, nations expanding territorially at the expense of other nations, freedom of trade and of course access to seas for landlocked countries through rule-based systems.
Ethiopia is one such country, which is a founding country of the UN, which is currently involved in expanding territorially into Somalia through pressuring one of its provinces, which is at present not in good terms with the center, to have access to the Gulf of Aden. It knows that the Somali State has not been at ease lately and not in peace for many years now, although the nation is the most homogenous of African countries. Ethiopia is........