The United States wants the hard-won cap on United Nations spending to be extended on June 30 in its push to bring about reform in the 60-year-old international organization, a top diplomat said Thursday.
John Bolton, who represents the US at the UN, told a US Senate panel that the move - which does not yet have wide support in New York - would "give us more time to show progress on the reform front."
The strategy is aimed at breaking down a "whip organisation" of developing countries in the General Assembly that have been blocking attempts to give more power to the secretary general and to cut down on the number of UN-funded mandates, according to Bolton's testimony.
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