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UN reform to take longer than a year: Bolton
Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:39 PM ET


LONDON (Reuters) - Reform of the United Nations will take longer than a year, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said on Friday, expressing frustration with what he called the disappointing results of a recent summit of the world body.

Bolton, who put forward a barrage of more than 500 amendments before modest U.N. reforms were agreed last month, also said he did not know if a new human rights council -- to replace the widely criticised U.N. Human Rights Commission -- could be set up by year-end as Washington wants.

"I hoped we'd be finished with the establishment of the human rights council before the end of this year," Bolton, a staunch critic of the U.N. before his appointment as ambassador, told London's Royal Institute of International Affairs.

"I don't know whether we will succeed given the opposition to substantial change in the Human Rights Commission," he added.


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