Pakistan, Sept. 24 -- For all of these obvious reasons, a renewed global multilateralism without the UN's role isn't even conceivable. The COVID-19 crisis comes as a caveat that it should be sufficient to usher a new UN moment in the first half of 2021. The means and methods the UN often implies a level of coherence and bureaucratic independence that the UN rarely possesses. The waning UN performance is normally better understood as a failure of international co-operation. We see this recently in the UN's inability to deal with crises from the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, to civil conflict in Syria, and the failure of the Security Council to adopt a prompted measure against the HR violations in Kashmir and Palestin...