Yep, the new president of the UN Security Council is... Syria. Whatever else the UN is, it's not a democratic institution in any sense of the word. Most of the delegates are appointed by dictators whose only real goal is to use the UN to prop up their own corrupt regimes. It may be a useful forum for diplomacy, but anyone who expects anything more than mere words to emanate from that bunch of jokers is living in fantasyland.
(Thanks BotW.)