An Uncertain Summit, Amidst an Uncertain Future for the UN : Dawn Clancy / International Center for Dialogue Initiatives (ICDI)

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“The P5 will never give up their veto power,” said Daniel Warner, the former deputy to the director of the Geneva Graduate Institute, in Switzerland. “Never!”

"Still, Warner said the Pact for the Future cannot be successful without strict adherence and respect for the international laws and treaties that deal with the “heart of the matter” which is peace and security, which is included in the pact.

“You can’t talk about the future unless you have a reasonable and precise summary of what’s going on now,” he said. “How can you have countries sign a pact when the Geneva Convention, otherwise known as the laws of war, are being violated all the time” and “there’s no punishment?” 

Richard Gowan, the UN director of the Crisis Group said the summit will have no immediate impact. “It’s not okay that those wars are continuing, but it’s okay that the summit is not about the wars,” Gowan said. “If member states had tried, or if the SG had tried, to use the summit process as a way to resolve those specific conflicts, it would have collapsed.”