UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States has proposed major changes, including deleting a provision on an increase of development aid, to a draft document to be adopted by world leaders in September to reinvent the United Nations.

    But many diplomats doubted that there could be enough time for the UN member states to re-negotiate the 38-page draft document assuggested by US Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton.     

    Under the US amendments, obtained by Xinhua Thursday, would delete provisions calling for the developed nations to achieve the target of 0.7 percent of gross national product for official development assistance no later than 2015.

    The US proposals would also strike off calls for global action to address climate change, concerted collective action to remove threats to global peace and security, respect for the International Criminal Court, and reduction of nuclear arsenal by nuclear powers.

    In the meantime, the United States wants stronger language on the responsibility to protect civilians from genocide and other crimes against humanity, on terrorism, and on the reform of the UN's management.

    Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram said the US proposal heralds difficult negotiations in the coming days and it would be impossible to find consensus on the draft document if concerns of other countries are not met.

    French Deputy Ambassador Michel Duclos said the US proposal is tantamount to scrapping the existing draft document and he believed that it could be a "tactical" action.

    Chinese Ambassador Wang Guangya said it is a bit late for the United States to suggest so many changes to the draft since the UNsummit is only two to three weeks away.

    He hoped that the UN member states would seek common ground andput aside their differences in the future negotiations so as to produce something tangible for the summit.

    The latest version of the draft document was prepared by the president of the General Assembly, Jean Ping, and his facilitators,and was release in early August. Among other goals, it calls for reaffirmation of commitments to millennium development goals, a definition of terrorism, the establishment of a peace-building commission, an overhaul of the Human Rights Commission, and an expansion of the Security Council. Enditem ¡¡