World Leaders Highlight Need for Reform
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One after another, world leaders and ministers called for expanding the powerful 15-nation Security Council, saying the modern world shouldn't be dominated by a few wealthy countries chosen in the aftermath of World War II.
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NEW YORK - Germany has called for the speedy reform of the 59-year-old United Nations joining other nations in pressing for a restructuring of the ageing organisation to help it meet new global changes.
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Financial leaders from the world's richest nations stood ready to discuss a global policy response to the credit crisis, which has unleashed economic downdrafts and market turbulence that knows no borders.
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The Tories are expected to call for renewed efforts to encourage Middle East countries to accept reform.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the organization is in need of reform, but remains the international community&#39;s best hope for facing global threats and challenges.
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The World Bank warns Cambodia that it needs to quicken reform to avoid severe economic problems.
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World leaders step up plans for a united response to the Asian tsunami, as the rising numbers of dead are mourned.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki has urged the Non-Aligned Movement to work flat out to resolve world conflicts, reform the United Nations and towards the eradication of poverty.
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The world's media is urged to find ways of making the global battle against poverty more engaging.
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A high-level UN panel has issued a sweeping series of recommendations on how to reform the world body to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
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Muslim countries need to club together in a new initiative to resolve turbulence and violence in the Middle East, the leaders of Indonesia and Pakistan said on Wednesday.
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Gordon Brown is to call for reform of international institutions on the second day of his trip to India.
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World leaders gathered at the United Nations on Tuesday to confront an agenda dominated by new terrorist threats, a humanitarian disaster in Sudan, turmoil in Iraq
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan wanted to know the challenges of our time and whether reform within the UN is necessary to meet the challenges of new threats.
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Pakistan and Iran called for a debate on the UN proposed reforms and as well as creating eight non-permanent Security Council seats, Pakistanâs foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
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Political reform in the developing world, including the Middle East, is a "necessity," Qatar's ruler told world leaders at the United Nations, addressing an issue that has come to the fore with the U.S. push to turn Iraq into a democracy.
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World leaders, tearing up a carefully prepared agenda for their annual summit, turned their attention to a growing crisis in the Middle East that has highlighted the differences between President Bush and major U.S. allies.