UN General Assembly agrees on watered-down reform document
The UN General Assembly adopted a watered-down document on poverty, human rights and UN reform for world leaders to approve at a summit this week, after shedding many of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s most ambitious goals during weeks of bitter debate.
The compromise 35-page document adopted yesterday is supposed to launch a major reform of the United Nations itself and galvanise efforts to ease global poverty. But to reach a consensus, most of the text’s details were gutted in favour of abstract language.
