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Urgent: China, Egypt agree to comprehensive UN reform, louder voice for developing world

Xinhua, January 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

China and Egypt announced Thursday that they both agree to comprehensively reform the UN system and increase the representation of developing nations within the world body.

To achieve a comprehensive reform of the UN Security Council, all five aspects of the reform should be handled as a whole, they said in a document outlining their joint actions in the next five years to strengthen the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership.

In the outline, issued during Chinese President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the North African nation, the two countries stressed that the overhaul should be aimed at establishing an open, multilateral and just system featuring democratic international decision-making. Endi