On the eve of the Winter Olympics in Salt-Lake-City in 2002 the North American party offered to appoint ice hockey referees from the NHL only. They justified it easily: these referees have more experience, interpret the rules identically and do not have language problems. The originators of the idea allegedly did not care about the fact that the NHL referees are also citizens of the USA and Canada, i.e. the countries, which are traditionally in competition with Europeans. That sporting initiative yet unsuccessful that time unexpectedly has been developed in the global politics.

Last week the Secretariats of the UNO and NATO signed a private cooperation agreement, which is an absurd in itself. Firstly, because the UN Secretariat has no authorities to take any political decisions. Secondly, even the UN Secretary General is also not authorized without approval of the UN Security Council permanent members (as of today 5 UN founders) to act on behalf of the United Nations. But the key point is that the ideology of the UNO consists in its maximum representative nature and legal impartiality, that is to say, in abandonment of any excusive support of any states to spite other states. The UN officials did not noticed that the North Atlantic Alliance represents the interest of only 28 of 192 states, in so doing, among 164 non-NATO states not all are the friends of Washington and Brussels. It looks like the story on the NHL referees.

Instead they hastily assured that it will improve efficiency of their work and referred to similar agreements between the UNO and the EU and African Union. But pardon me, both these unions are not military alliances, i.e. they are not in opposition to anybody in their nature. Cooperation with them has been approved not by international clerks but by the leaders of at least the SecCoun Five. These leaders also approved rather limited cooperation with NATO in the Balkans, Afghanistan and partially in Sudan and absolutely symbolic cooperation in Somalia.

Efficiency of any agreement is verified first of all thru modeling a situation, which requires its application. It is absolutely unclear what document the United Nations will refer to, the UN Charter or agreement with NATO, if any of the NATO states is exposed to international criticism or moreover sanctions. On the other hand, it is clear that the Alliance is striving to pose itself equal to a representative of the entire mankind. But in this case who will become an ultimate arbitrator in hundreds if not thousands of conflicts tearing the world community?

The time of signing the agreement is indicative. On the one hand, the world is financial-crisis-ridden. The public attention to self-activity of UN secretaries is evidently reduced. On the other hand, the Republicans in the USA urgently need new election votes, which origin is similar to those they have got due to the developments in Georgia. Besides, the West apparently made a decision to sacrifice the rest of partnership with Russia. For the reaction of Moscow to the NATO-UN agreement, moreover it is private, was clear as the Lord’s prayer. To provide the NATO Membership Action Plan to Georgia and, with luck, to Ukraine it is necessary to decrease the degree of relations between Russia and NATO down to the freezing point.

The UN officials are seeking measures to overcome their own systemic crisis. Because subsistence of about 20,000 clerks earning $60,000 each annually needs adequate accounting for their day-and-night service to global prosperity. But it is a fact that only about one hundred of approximately one thousand resolutions, decisions and recommendations adopted annually on the bank of the East River are implemented. Here we have to recognize that in fact there is no tool for implementation of world society decisions. On the other hand, there are no decisions that would meet the interests of the entire mankind. We have to say more: the existing version of the international law is outliving its usefulness with nothing expected to be used as its substitute in sight. Meanwhile NATO officers deliver UN clerks to Afghanistan via the Russian air corridor. Sometimes they do it by planes leased from Russia or Ukraine. If we refuse them to fly, they will blame us for secret assistance to Ben-Laden. If we grant clearance, they will speak about efficiency of the NATO-UN partnership...