US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday said it “would be great” if a functional international system existed to address potential conflicts around the world, including those between India and Pakistan.
“We see the utility in the international system. It has grown beyond its intent. It needs to be brought back to its proper focus and its proper role. Rubio added that in the absence of that, nation-states will act in their national interest. But at the end of the day, the US will always act, at least as long as President Trump is in office, we will always act in the national interest of our country, not in the interest of the international order.
Because it has grown beyond its mandate, “I think multiple leaders…pointed to the fact that the international system is failing, and it’s failing. Because it broke itself, “But it’s broken. Because this is not an attack on the international system, “I want to be clear.
We’re here…I think the President has said that the United Nations, for example, has tremendous potential, but it’s not living up to it…,” Rubio told reporters. It’s involved in all kinds of things that shouldn’t be involved in, and it’s unable to solve virtually any major conflict in the world,” he said. The top US diplomat said there’s “unanimity and consensus” at the high-level UNGA week that the international system is broken. It would be great if we had a functional international system, for example, that could deal with a war between Thailand and Cambodia that occurred, or a potential conflict between India and Pakistan…Right now, we don’t seem to have a functional international system that can address it,” he said. We will never put the international order above the interest of the United States,” Rubio said.
