(2)Kawaguchi calls for early U.N. reform, says need is ''urgent''

(2)Kawaguchi calls for early U.N. reform, says need is ''urgent''

KYOTO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi calls for an early reform of the United Nations on July 6 in an address to a two-day regional security conference in Kyoto launched by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. ''Japan believes that there is an urgent need for U.N. institutional reform'' so that it can deal with pressing tasks, including terror threats, more efficiently, Kawaguchi said.

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