UN reform should be factor of rapprochement, not division, Moroccan FM
Regional-Morocco, Politics, 6/15/2005

The United Nations' reform should be a factor of rapprochement and reconciliation and not division, stated Moroccan Foreign Minister, Mohamed Benaissa, on Monday.

Speaking at the extraordinary ministerial meeting of the non-aligned movement, held on the fringes of the 2nd summit of G77 plus China (June 15-16), Benaissa hoped that the reform of the UN will be unanimously approved.

Morocco has always backed the process of reforms in the United Nations, he said, recalling the speech of King Mohammed VI before the UN General Assembly wherein he said that the UN is capable of peacefully handling the international situation by re-boosting the dynamic of the current system.

It is also important, he added, to energize the UN and its bodies, including the Security Council, and to provide tools that are adapted to the new geo-political reality of the 21st century.

The Moroccan official deemed that the three top priorities, namely peace and security, development, and human right necessitate the reinforcement of the United Nations in order to make them the main gear of the ambitious program of reforms.

Benaissa also raised in a speech Monday the issue of Africa's debts cancellation, saying although praiseworthy, the cancellation of the poorest African countries' debt is "not enough by itself."

The Group of 77 (G-77) was established on 15 June 1964 by seventy-seven developing countries signatories of the "Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries" issued at the end of the first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.

As the largest Third World coalition in the United Nations, the Group of 77 provides the means for the developing world to articulate and promote its collective economic interests and enhance its joint negotiating capacity on all major international economic issues in the United Nations system, and promote economic and technical cooperation among developing countries.

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