Dermot Ahern hails UN reforms package

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern has welcomed the agreement reached on a programme of United Nations reforms which is being laid before world leaders gathering today for the UN Summit in New York.

Mr Ahern, who acted as an Envoy of the UN Secretary General, said the agreement vindicated Kofi Annan’s approach, which was based on the close linkages between development, security and human rights, and on the need for a strengthened United Nations to address them in an integrated way.