China supports reforms of UN to increase voice of developing nations

Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jun speaks during a Security Council meeting. - Filepic

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy said Monday that China supports reasonable and necessary reform of the United Nations Security Council to meet the needs of the times.

"With a collective rise of developing countries being the defining feature, China supports reasonable and necessary reform of the Security Council to meet the needs of the times," Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, told the 33rd plenary meeting of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly on the "Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters related to the Security Council."