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U.S. Wants Last-Minute Changes to U.N. Reform Plan
The United States has submitted more than 750 amendments to a draft U.N. reform document, including provisions to strengthen language on curbing WMD proliferation and terrorism, the Washington Post reported today (see GSN, Aug. 3). U.S. Ambassador John Bolton presented the proposed U.S. amendments, contained in a confidential 36-page document obtained by Post, this week to some U.N. ambassadors. Bolton also objected during individual meetings with other diplomats this week to language urging a moratorium on nuclear testing and support for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, U.S. and U.N. diplomats said. The U.N. summit on poverty and reform begins Sept. 14. General Assembly President Jean Ping hopes to gather representatives of up to 30 nations beforehand for final talks on the reform document. Bolton told the delegates that, if no agreement could be reached, the entire reform document could be replaced with a brief statement, or divided into themes that nations could choose to support individually, the diplomats said. “Time is short. In order to maximize our chances of success, I suggest we begin the negotiations immediately, this week if possible,” Bolton wrote yesterday in a confidential letter to U.N. delegates (Colum Lynch, Washington Post, Aug. 25).
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