Efforts to reform U.N. in its 60th year draw interest of Vatican

Published: 2005-02-04

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) -- Efforts to reform the United Nations and its approach to peace and security as it observes its 60th anniversary this year have drawn the interest and support of the Vatican. Recent attention has been focused on the report of a high-level panel appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to examine "threats, challenges and change" the international organization is facing in the 21st century. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's U.N. nuncio, told the General Assembly Jan. 31 that the report "in many ways coincides with the Holy See's views." In the statement and in an interview the following day, the nuncio welcomed a broadening of the approach to peace and security that emphasizes preventing conflict and the attention to development goals that would contribute to that objective.

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