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  • Lawyers Group Proposes Reforms for United Nations [Paris group says UN should be moved from NYC]

    08/30/2003 5:44:56 PM PDT · by yonif · 52 replies · 300+ views
    Reutuers ^ | Sat August 30, 2003 08:05 PM ET | Ian Simpson
    LISBON (Reuters) - The International Association of Lawyers proposed Saturday the United Nations' charter should be overhauled and that its headquarters should be moved from New York, in a call for reform after the Iraq crisis. Failure to reform could lead to a "total marginalization of this body in the fight for peace and international security in the 21st century," the association's president, Antoine Akl, said in an address at its annual congress. The Paris-based association, grouping almost two million lawyers from 110 countries, said it planned to submit its proposals to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in an effort to...