Reform at United Nations Is Top U.S. Priority, State Official Says

Washington – Management reform at the United Nations is at the top of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s agenda, says Kristen Silverberg, assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs.

The United States needs “to see some serious, tangible progress in the short term, and long-term commitment” to reform, Silverberg said in an April 13 panel discussion at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Joining Silverberg was Robert Orr, assistant U.N. secretary-general for policy coordination and strategic planning, who said that a “quiet but rather important wave of reform taking place at the U.N. today,” is perhaps the most important institutional restructuring in the world body since its creation. Read on...