REFORM UNITED NATIONS, CALLS KAZAKHSTAN

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ASTANA, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Kazakhstan is for the United Nations reformed, Kasymzhomart Tokayev, its Foreign Minister, said to the UN General Assembly in New York City. The information reached Novosti from the Foreign Ministry press service.

The latest tragic developments in many parts of the world-especially heinous school hostage-taking and mass murders in Russia's Beslan-came as another insistent demonstration of reform urgency, stressed Mr. Tokayev.

"To make the UN an efficient tool of boosting global and regional security, building up WMD nonproliferation, and promoting globalization control is the central issue of international security. We insist on the UN General Assembly enhancing its part as the human race is coping with its essential tasks," the minister went on.

Kazakhstan backed Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, as he determined to establish a high-level ad hoc team for UN reforms. "The UN Security Council, the way it is today, no longer reflects latter-day developments. That is the Kazakh opinion." In particular, the minister came out against the term "enemy state" in the UN Charter, which he considers anachronistic. "The Security Council needs updating through its new members, permanent and non-permanent. Asia, Africa and Latin America should be entitled to broader representation on the Council, and ought to take direct part in decision-making on topical international issues."

Mr. Tokayev said he has "glad to see the Security Council Counter-Terror Committee reform gaining momentum. The committee ought to enhance its role as international terrorism is escalating. Otherwise, global anti-terror efforts to repulse new threats and challenges will be not so efficient as they should be, and so will thwart nations' hopes." As the Foreign Minister added, "Kazakhstan remains convinced partisan of preventive diplomacy, and thinks that the idea to establish a UN Center for preventive diplomacy in Central Asia retains its topicality."

"We cannot but be alarmed as drugs and illegal migrations are spreading on, and religious extremism mounting. All that-just as poverty, environment pollution and water shortages-comes as a nutritive milieu for international terrorism as it is gaining momentum in the Central Asian region," pointed out Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister.

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