Posted on 11/19/2004 5:47:24 AM PST by paudio
Yes..the REAL "blood for oil" group!
I don't think so. The real reason is hiring practices and sexual harassment according to the article, which states,
"But staffers said the trigger for the no-confidence measure was an announcement this week that Annan had pardoned the UN's top oversight official, who was facing allegations of favouritism and sexual harassment."
"The union had requested a formal probe into the behaviour of the official, Dileep Nair, after employees accused him of harassing members of his staff and violating UN rules on the hiring and promotion of workers. "
It is an internal dispute concerning how the graft is distributed.
The US doesn't need "yes countries" in the UNSC. If the UN is to continue, and be relevant, a wink and a nod is not the answer. Honesty and integrity is the answer. We don't necessarily need everyone to just agree with everything the US says and does. The US needs nations as allies that are not led by corrupt leaders.
Maybe that is asking too much. Maybe the UN really should be abolished.
That's the second sex scandal old Kofi has dismissed. Add to that the OFF scandal and you have a UN mired in corruption.
they feel he has stolen enough money and its time to give someone else a turn.
Aye.
Exactly. Lot of folks poking around the UN's bidness these days--just might uncover their gravy train.
UN employees were readying on Friday to make a historic vote of no confidence in scandal-plagued Secretary General Kofi Annan, sources told AFP.
Translation: the SOB got caught!
So what pull does the UN staff have? Don't the member countries vote Kofi in or out? Just trying to see the significance of this.
This COULD work out even better. Kofi will be gone, AND the "Oil for Food" scandal will still be alive and well. If they got rid of him for "Oil for Food" the whole thing would then be swept under the rug.
That stinking flag does make a nice target.
Independently, perhaps not much, as you said, it's the country members that have the power to remove Annan. Take it together, however, it's part of a systematic problem in the UN: abuse of power and corruption. So, in the big picture, it surely doesn't help the credibility (or significance) of the UN.
you have a UN mired in corruption
We're all pretty shocked here.
That's a smart bunch of folks at the UN to lose faith in him so quickly. /sarcasm
Aye.
OOh ooh, can I watch?
Is there at least a glimmer of hope that this scandal will make the UN go down in flames??
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