THE GOLDEN KEY

Admired by many and reviled by others, the United Nations has had a bumpy ride over the past three quarters of a century. With both advantages and limitations, no one can deny that the UN has evolved into the most representative, authoritative and full-fledged cooperation platform that is the centerpiece of global governance and the international system.

It has made indelible contributions to maintaining world peace and promoting sustainable development and made possible the wide acceptance of a peoplecentered philosophy, and a broad consensus on the need for mutually beneficial cooperation. It has driven home that in an era of intertwined traditional and non-traditional security threats with interconnected