A reformed UN can respond to crises more effectively: Mukherjee

New Delhi, Jan 13: A reformed and effective United Nation will be able to respond to the crises afflicting the world in a more decisive manner, President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Ban called on the president at Rashtrapati Bhavan Tuesday. Welcoming the UN chief to India, Mukherjee said the UN was in urgent need of reform for its own credibility and legitimacy of its decisions and added that the UN needs to represent the geo-political realities of today. The president said it was true there were divergences on the reforms, but the UN has been created to iron out these divergences and find solutions acceptable to the large section of the international community. Reform of the UN should be advanced at least in the 70th year of the organisation this year, he stressed.