UN reforms watered down as world summit begins

Reform of the United Nations, an organisation beleaguered by controversy in recent years, has been watered down by negotiators coming into the world summit starting Wednesday (14 September) in New York.

More than 170 world leaders will gather for the 60th anniversary of the UN, where issues such as development aid, terrorism and UN reform will head the agenda.

Negotiators from a "key group" of 33 countries worked late into the night for more than three weeks to present a final dra...