Posted on 07/20/2010 3:20:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The former head of the United Nations' internal oversight office has accused U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of poor leadership, saying that the world body was "falling apart" and becoming irrelevant.
The latest criticism of Ban's performance at the helm of the United Nations, first reported by the Washington Post on Tuesday, comes as his aides weigh the former South Korean foreign minister's prospects for a possible second term.
The former head of the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), Inga-Britt Ahlenius of Sweden, said that under Ban's watch "there is no transparency, there is (a) lack of accountability."
"I regret to say that the (U.N.) Secretariat now is in a process of decay," Ahlenius said in what she described as an "end-of-assignment report." She left the job last week and no successor has so far been named.
"It is not only falling apart ... It is drifting into irrelevance," she wrote.
Ahlenius said Ban had undermined the independence of OIOS, which investigates suspected wrongdoing at the United Nations, by preventing her from making the U.S. head of the disbanded U.N. Procurement Task Force head of OIOS investigations.
The 15-person task force, which former Connecticut attorney Robert Appleton led until its mandate was allowed to lapse at the end of 2008, was created in the wake of a corruption scandal involving the former oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Some “Good News”?
How can the U.N. degenerate any more than it has already?
That’s what I thought. Hopefully the nations will build a new one and start over somewhere in the middle east or Europe. How about China?
They ought to re-design the UN remodel project and turn the place into a hookah bar, opium den and bordello,. The place is nothing more than a refuge for spies, debauchery and deceit.
“Some “Good News”?”
I would expect that the body is probably leaning towards a rep from North Korea leading the UN.
I was thinking Abu Dhabi or Gaza..
The UN doesn’t have much distance to fall, actually.
It’s been close to worthless for a few decades now.
But we all know that.
It has been irrelevant for quite some time. THis is not news to anyone who pays attention!
It has been irrelevant for quite some time. THis is not news to anyone who pays attention!
” ( Secretariat now is in a process of decay) “
Decay is natural for dead things....
“Becoming” irrelevant? Wow! And here I thought it has been irrelevant for years!
global warming lies cause global fever?
I have an idea to make them relevant again. Move out of the US. [Actually, it probably wouldn’t work, but maybe they wouldn’t figure that out until it was too late. ;) ]
Not a UN history buff, but has it ever been relevant?
The best proof that teh UN is in decay and drifitng to irrelvance is that it took this former head of UN’s internal oversight office fifty years to figure it out.
It couldn’t happen to a better group. We should (and I think we will in the future) expel them to some small nation like Holland, Denmark, or Latvia. They have lost any rational for existence 40 years ago.
Nope.
They just want more money. Too big to fail.
“the world body was “falling apart” and becoming irrelevant.”
Yeah baby.
Thank you Ban Ki-moon ... keep up the good work.
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