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Thursday, September 07, 2000, updated at 08:55(GMT+8)
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Chinese President Calls for Strengthened Positive Role of U.N.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Wednesday called for the strengthening of the United Nations' positive role, and the defense of the world body's authority, in the new century.

In a speech delivered at the U.N. Millennium Summit, Jiang said that the organization's "positive role must be strengthened and not weakened and its authority defended and not jeopardized."

"We must firmly defend the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter, continue to give play to the positive role of the U.N. and its Security Council in handling international affairs and safeguarding world peace, and ensure all the member states their right to participate in world affairs on an equal footing," he stressed.

"In handling international affairs," he said, "no country or group of countries should take an attitude of 'using the United Nations when it is needed and abandon it when it is not.'"

Jiang said that the U.N., which came into being at the historic moment of great victory in the world's anti-fascist war 55 years ago, should be a place where all its member states discuss and address international affairs through democratic means.

The U.N. and its Security Council should go along with the trend of history and carry out reforms as necessary and appropriate under the principle of equitable geographical distribution, so as to give expression to the will of all its member states, developing countries in particular, he noted.

Over half a century and more, with the support of its member states, the U.N. has done much useful work to ease regional conflicts, eliminate old colonialism and promote world peace, cooperation and development, Jiang said.

"As the most authoritative international organization of sovereign states with the broadest representation in the world," he emphasized, "the U.N. plays an irreplaceable role in the maintenance of world peace, promotion of common development, and establishment of a fair and reasonable new international political and economic order."




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Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Wednesday called for the strengthening of the United Nations' positive role, and the defense of the world body's authority, in the new century.

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