Because the United Nations is a body chiefly concerned with enforcing international treaties, I imagine it would be incentivized to support arguments in favor of increasing its own scope and powers.
You imagine falsely, because your premise is false. The UN not only isn’t a body, its actions are largely controlled by a “Security Council” of powerful nations which try to serve their own interests (modulo hypotheticals about one of their governments being captured by a mad dog) and have no desire to serve the interests of the UN as such. This is mostly by design. We created the UN to prevent world wars, hence it can’t act on its own to start a world war.
AFAIK, the Secretary-General is a full-time position, e.g., and whoever holds that position is not necessarily considered in that role at the behest of another country acting to represent only their country’s interests. Would you say that António Guterres seeks to fulfil the objectives of only Portugal, and not the goals of the UN and whatever it says its values are?
You imagine falsely, because your premise is false. The UN not only isn’t a body, its actions are largely controlled by a “Security Council” of powerful nations which try to serve their own interests (modulo hypotheticals about one of their governments being captured by a mad dog) and have no desire to serve the interests of the UN as such. This is mostly by design. We created the UN to prevent world wars, hence it can’t act on its own to start a world war.
AFAIK, the Secretary-General is a full-time position, e.g., and whoever holds that position is not necessarily considered in that role at the behest of another country acting to represent only their country’s interests. Would you say that António Guterres seeks to fulfil the objectives of only Portugal, and not the goals of the UN and whatever it says its values are?