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第17回優秀賞agree with Mr. Akashi, the former undersecretary of the UN, that a more frequentuse of emergency special sessions of the General Assembly and the restoration of itsinterim committee of 1947 as an intersessional standing body should be reconsidered. 6What is most important concerning the UN now is that this organization should beprovided with more authority and credibility as a supreme international organizationso that it can function more efficiently. For this purpose, every member state shouldcooperate toward international peace and respect this organization as a supremeand ultimate body of international community. The former Secretary General, DagHammarskjold once said“everything will be all right when people just stop thinking ofthe UN as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.”His remarks are true to large extent. John T. Rourke, a professor of HarvardUniversity, relates that it is important for member states to respect this organizationand cooperate for international security even if the cooperation turns out against theirnational interest for a short term, recognizing that truly peaceful community is a longtermgoal of mankind and it will be in their self interest in the long run. He believesthis idealist approach is gaining ground as states recognize that competition andconflicts are increasingly dangerous and destructive and that peaceful cooperation isin everyone’s self-interest. 7 (There still remain many obstacles to this goal, of course,and one of them is the system that justifies states’seeking self-interest first.) Even if itmight require another century for this idealist approach to penetrate into every state,we should not make this current reversible.Pacific settlement of all conflicts, however, is sometimes possible only in theory.Therefore, we have to think about what we can do in the present political system.The next stage to solve conflicts will be collective security including various sanctionsshort of military intervention. The UN has provided a wide variety of sanctions under6 Yasushi Akashi,“10 suggestions to strengthen U.N.”, The Daily Yomiuri, 3 February 2000.7 John T. Rourke, International Politics ton the World Stage, 7 th ed.,（Connecticut: Dushkin McGraw Hill, 1999），21/45