PRETORIA, Oct 6: Prime Minister I K Gujral today warned that any delay or dilution of the United Nations reform process would endanger world peace and asked developing countries to rededicate themselves to evolve a new world order based on equity and justice.The UN, which had done so much to enhance freedom and quality of life across the globe, continued to reflect an ``outdated structure which must change'', Gujral said at a function after unveiling a bust of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the premises of the Indian chancery here.Gujral, who is on a four-day visit to South Africa, the first ever by an Indian Prime Minister in over four decades, said reforms to the all-important and crucial body ``is not only due but overdue''.``India and South Africa know this well. They know that to delay or dilute the reforms process is not only wrong but also dangerous, because world peace cannot be ensured in conditions of inequality,'' Gujral said.Gujral asked developing countries to join hands and work unitedly to create a new world order. ``The developing countries. particularly those in Africa, Asia and Latin America, through the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and through other regional and inter-regional bodies, must take the post colonial and post apartheid world of today to a millennium of social, political and economic opportunities,'' he said. Gujral began his day with a visit to what he called ``the very sanctum'' of India's freedom struggle - the Johannesburg fort - and the cell where Mahatma Gandhi and the South African leader Nelson Mandela were imprisoned.
