"We are in favor of a deep reform of the international financial architecture, which eliminates the deep asymmetry between countries, which gives priority to heavily indebted countries," RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.

According to Bárcena, the new architecture should provide for the use of new tools, as well as the redistribution of special drawing rights "to expand the fiscal space of developing countries or to alleviate the debt burden in exchange for environmental services."

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking at the UN General Assembly, stated the need to change the methods of forming the UN Secretariat.