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Bolton Defends Effort to Amend U.N. Reform Draft
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton yesterday defended Washington’s recent push for hundreds of proposed changes to a U.N. reform document the organization hopes to finalize next month, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Aug. 25). The amendments “are not that dissimilar to changes that we’ve been talking about here at the U.N. for months,” Bolton said. “Our hope is to have a strong consensus document for the high-level event,” he said, referring to next month’s summit in New York. Some of the amendments would eliminate calls for the nuclear powers to relinquish their weapons, according to AP. Egyptian U.N. Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz said many difference remain, including agreement on a definition of terrorism (Edith Lederer, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Aug. 26). Some U.N. ambassadors criticized the U.S. move and encouraged openness to compromise, Reuters reported. “It is not mathematics. It is politics,” said Russian Ambassador Andrei Denisov, referring to the hundreds of changes proposed by the U.S. delegation. “We need to produce something tangible before our leaders come here in September,” Denisov said. “We will do more work to try to find some sort of compromise and try to reach something which is more or less acceptable to everybody.” “I think there is a general sense that these comments come rather late in the process,” said Japanese Ambassador Kenzo Oshima. “But still there is time that we can spend in working on the documents, in refining them on various issues” (Irwin Arieff, Reuters, Aug. 25).
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