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And long overdue.................


UN staff ready historic no-confidence vote in Annan

Fri Nov 19, 6:50 AM ET World - AFP

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN employees are expected to issue an unprecedented vote of no confidence in Secretary-General Kofi Annan, union sources say, after he pardoned the body's top oversight official over a series of allegations.

The UN staff union, in what officials said was the first vote of its kind in the more than 50-year history of the United Nations, was set to approve a resolution withdrawing support for the embattled Annan and senior UN management.

Annan has been in the line of fire over a high-profile series of scandals including controversy about a UN aid programme that investigators say allowed deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to embezzle billions of dollars.

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.

Top UN spokesman Fred Eckhard announced on Tuesday that Nair had been exonerated by Annan "after a thorough review" by the UN's senior official in charge of management, Catherine Bertini.

Annan underlined that he "had every confidence" in Nair, Eckhard said, but UN employees ridiculed the decision and claimed that investigators had not questioned the staff union, which first raised the complaints in April.

"This was a whitewash, pure and simple," Guy Candusso, a senior member of the staff union, told AFP.
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[noc]

Wow, how wonderful that would be. I hope it happens.

[kingfish]

Great idea- maybe if enough dirty UN politico's are publicly dissed, they will go home, and a new UN HQ can be erected in Gay Paree!
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[tony54]

There is only about 5 countries in the UN that are friendly and pro-US, the rest are either enemies, spies or both.
In this day and age they can either be part of the solution, or part of the problem. And they are the problem.
They use every opportunity they can to undermine and bit-slap th USA, and we pay the majority of their expenses.
I think we should send about 1000 US Marines in that snake pit they call the UN building and arrest and deport every one of those rats and forbid them from ever entering the states again.

[wwIIvetsdaughter]

I am suspicious, this could be a way to engineer KA out of the UN so as to save the hinnys of nations that benefited from the Iraq's bogus OIL for FOOD program. You know, toss one suvivor from the lifeboat to save the rest.

[DaveL]

The final resolution apparently differed greatly from that draft resolution per Fox News...This final resolution takes out all words relating to "No confidence" and deletes references to Secretary General Kofi Annan's managerial missteps, in fact, the President of the UN Staff Council states that they fully support Annan...I wonder what happened?

[Lexy]

from what I have read today, it seems they voted but didnt include anything against Secretary General Kofi Annan... what a disappointment...

hugz
lexy

[scotty61]

The UN wimp out and refuse to make a stand? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
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[Lexy]

hahahaha scotty!

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