EDITORO's Note.

Precisely 75 years ago, on 24th October 1945, the treaty of the foundation of the UN was ratified by majority of the member states to create world's most celebrated multilateral forum with its head office in New York. Currently, there are over 60 institutions, agencies, funds, and programs working under the umbrella of the UN. With these organizations under its egis, the UN regulates the international system on almost all issues such as peace, security, health, food, environment, development, refugees, asylum seekers, international transport, and tourism.

With 193 member's states and 75 years later, the world is still far from being peaceful, progressive, disease, hunger and conflict free. With the anniversary theme of "The Future We Want, the UN We Need: Reaffirming our Collective Commitment to Multilateralism', there is a lot to reflect back to help UN to move ahead to achieve its goals and principles globally.

This is an important opportunity, especially in the case of COVID-19, as this is a reminder for us all as nation states, organizations and individuals, about the daunting challenges that the world faced today where there is a need to strength our relationships that help us transcend beyond capacities and boundaries. UN may not be perfect but as a result of the tireless efforts of those working in the UN with its family of agencies and entities, we enjoy the civilization and development what we see today.

UN can only be effective and achieve its goals and standards set forth in its charter, if the member nation states are wholeheartedly especially willing to contribute towards those principles and goals. COVID-19, a "one in century" pathogen searing deep across the world, is a huge test of times countries member to the UN especially those calling themselves as `leaders' of the world.

Despite this challenge, where Secretary General of the UN called for the countries to come out together, we have observed huge divisions, including blaming one country or another for the reasons to spread the virus. With the rise of the political and economic divisions and rivalry between world leading countries including US and China, frictions was further reinforced globally. As a result of these global tensions, UN faced challenges and much of the productive work came to a standstill.

We all collectively seems failing to respond to a huge challenge of COVID-19 especially to build our strength and fight the virus. Instead of global coordination or...