UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The U.N. summit will see the Untied States push for reforms in the key areas of management of the world body and human rights.
The summit, opening Wednesday, is being attended by leaders of some 170 countries who will sign a document on U.N. reforms and its future goals. U.S. President George W. Bush is scheduled to speak Wednesday.
The United States wants to concentrate more management responsibilities in a secretary-general's office with oversight powers and new officers who will focus on finances and personnel while leaving political duties to the secretary-general, reports the Christian Science Monitor.
The United States also wants replacement of the United Nation's politicized and widely discredited Commission on Human Rights.
The current commission "is completely broken," says Richard Grenell, spokesman for U.S. Ambassador John Bolton. "It's the violators who are in control."
The United States wants a council of no more than 30 nations that would be closed to countries under U.N. Security Council inquiry for human rights violations.
But some developing countries see these changes as draining power from the U.N. General Assembly, says the Monitor.
