The United Nations is an international organization established after World War II, after the ratification of the Charter of the United Nations by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and most other signatories on October 24, 1945, with 193 member states, basically covering all sovereign states in the world.
Waldheim
The headquarters of the United Nations is in New York, usa, and offices have been set up in many countries, but these countries are all developed countries in the West, and they are also the little brothers of the United States. To put it bluntly, it is to fight for its own military strength, it is the only two powerful countries in the world at that time, and it wants to use its own strength to get more right to speak, and it is up to it.
For a long time, before our rejoining of the United Nations in 1975, it was the representative of the other side of the strait, exercising its rights in the United Nations. The status of the United States in the United Nations is also self-evident, so for a long time the secretary-general of the United Nations has a long position, basically led by the United States, and it is difficult for other countries to have a say, the only exception is the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union at that time did not dare to openly offend the United States. It is not difficult to see from the Cold War between the two countries and the imposition of sanctions on the Soviet Union by the United States that the United States still stands in a dominant position in the international arena. After our country rejoined the union, at each meeting, our country basically abstained from voting, and at that time it also received the title of "Mr. Abstention".
Waldheim in the campaign
It is for these reasons that the election of the Secretary-General in 1981 made the United States and Waldheim (then the Secretary-General of the United Nations) feel that their victory was a foregone conclusion, not to mention that the United States had already greeted various countries in advance, and the Soviet Union also supported Waldheim, and there was no reason to fail with the support of the two superpowers.
On October 27, 1981, in the United Nations Conference Hall in New York, USA, the election of the Secretary-General of the United Nations officially began. The two sides of the election were Waldheim, represented by Western countries, and Salim, represented by the Third World from Africa. Waldheim, who had the chance to win, did not expect that an accident occurred, and in the first round, our country unusually voted against Waldheim, which was vetoed by our country (one veto is a right that belongs to the five permanents, and it is also a kind of power. It is to prevent the United Nations, like other leagues of nations, from collapsing because of the disobedience of the great Powers. To put it simply, as long as any one of the five permanent countries casts a veto, your vote is useless).) This is also something that many countries have not expected, they feel that our country is just a gesture, and they will definitely vote in favor or abstain from voting next. After a brief pause, the voting continued, but what I did not expect was that in the next few rounds, my country still voted against it, because our country had a veto, so it was useless not to have a number of votes in Waldheim. As a result, the voting was temporarily deadlocked and voting could only be suspended.
Waldheim and Hua Guofeng
At this time, in order to force our country to make concessions, the United States constantly put pressure on me, and Reagan, who was the president of the United States at the time, even talked about our treasure island. Among the six guarantees he immediately promised to Taiwan, the United States did not set an end date for arms sales to Taiwan, the United States did not agree to sell weapons to Taiwan to consult the mainland, the United States would not play a coordinating role between Taiwan and the mainland, did not agree to revise the Taiwan Relations Act, the United States did not change its position on Taiwan's sovereignty, and the United States would not force Taiwan to negotiate with the mainland.
Salim participating in the elections
When Deng Xiaoping, who was at home, learned of this, he did not compromise, but gave the instructions to Ling Qing, who was China's permanent representative to the United Nations at the time, far across the ocean, to "no to the end". He also told those African countries that are worried that China will change its course under pressure: "Since China has supported Salim and supported developing countries, it will continue to support it to the end, and it will definitely not give up after only a few rounds." In the next 20 days or so, our country voted 16 consecutive veto votes, completely blocking the road to re-election in Waldheim, and Salim, who also supported our country, was also voted against by the United States in each round, giving a vote veto. If this stalemate continues, there will be no result, and in the end the United Nations can only propose the withdrawal of the two of them and re-propose the candidates, which has also been recognized by most countries.
The scene of the United Nations elections
After re-recommending the candidates, de Cuéllar from Peru succeeded in becoming the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations, and this time my country did not vote against it. Shortly after taking office, De Cuéllar visited my country in his capacity as Secretary-General of the United Nations and expressed his gratitude to my country.
Why should my country oppose Waldheim? Is it because his relationship with our country is not good? Why support Salim and DeQuelal?
In fact, our country and Waldheim are not on good relations, on the contrary, his relations with our country are still very good. He helped our country a lot when it was not yet returning to the United Nations, and during the important period of our return to the United Nations, he also publicly stated to the outside world: "It is a great joke that a small island with a population of just over 16 million people, which is on the edge of the Chinese mainland, has not measured enough to exercise power on behalf of Chinese, which accounts for a quarter of the total population of mankind." ”
Huang Hua and Waldheim
If this is the case, why should my country oppose him? That brings us to his competitor, Salim. On the way back to the United Nations in our country, Salim can be said to have spared no effort to help our country, and on the day of our return to the United Nations, he was the one who jumped up to celebrate, and it can be said that when our country returned to the United Nations, he was more excited than my country. Of course, at the national level, Salim also has a lot of help for our country. The most important point is that he is also from third world countries, but also developing countries, the United Nations Secretary-General is from developing countries, in order to better help these countries to develop, because only developing countries can really understand the difficulties in development, in order to provide targeted assistance. Those developed countries in the West will not really understand the developing countries at all. Therefore, our country supports justice, is the person who can really help the development of third world countries, not that our country has an opinion on Waldheim, this, when Waldheim communicated with our country, it was already explained to him, he also expressed understanding, so he also took the initiative to withdraw from the united Nations Secretary-General's election.
As for de Cuéliar, who was finally elected, he, like Salim, is from a developing country, and my country supports him in line with the national conditions of developing countries, which is also the voice of a developing country!
Because of this incident, every term of the United Nations Secretary-General position has basically been held by developing countries, which is also another kind of victory for developing countries in the competition with developed countries!