Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said UN reform was a top priority at the summit meeting in Havana that developing countries wrapped up over the weekend.

"We have participated actively on many discussions on the reform of the United Nations ... including the Security Council," Abdullah told a news conference as the summit of 118 nations drew to a close with 56 heads of state and government on hand.

In addition, "the debates concentrated a lot on steps that have been taken for the revitalization of the NAM," he said of the group which was created in 1961 by countries generally seeking not to take sides during the Cold War.

"We want to see the NAM count. We want to make sure that the NAM working group in New York (at the UN) becomes very active," Abdullah stressed, also mentioning a NAM focus "for peacekeeping to be multinational."

"We want to see NAM count ... (as) the biggest political platform outside of the United Nations," he said.

Venezuelan deputy foreign minister Jorge Valero said on the summit sidelines that after a globe-trotting campaign by President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela has locked in the votes to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

"We are going to use our voice in the Security Council ... in favor of the democratization of the United Nations," Valero said. "We are going to raise our voice whenever someone tries to use the international system's agencies to subjugate peoples" around the world, Valero said.

The United States, which accuses Chavez of seeking to destabilize democracies in Latin America, has backed Guatemala's rival bid for one of the seats reserved for a Latin American nation.