UN General Assembly
1997

but level, and this means that the world organizations to which we belong must be highly effective. The most important of these is the United Nations, and this brings me to the questions I know the Secretary- General is keen to hear all of us answer at this session: What do we think of his package of proposed reforms? Are they going to help developing nations? My broad reply would be to say that we think the package is better than the previous attempts to achieve reform. Overall, it firmly addresses the right questions, 4 and, having long supported the idea of United Nations reform, we welcome the proposals. However, we do have a few comments to offer. We believe they are constructive and hope they will be taken into account by the Secretary-General. As many others have remarked, the proposal seems, basically, to be a management package. It reflects the Secretary-General’s long experience in the Organization. But good management principles represent only one aspect of the reforms we need. We hope that an acceptable consensus will be reached on