Former US president Bill Clinton said Secretary General Kofi Annan picked him as the UN's Asian tsunami recovery envoy to heap guilt on nations that have pledged money but not paid up.
"He thought I could guilt-peddle my former colleagues better than anyone else he could think of," Clinton said at a conference here aimed at boosting private efforts to help with future disaster relief worldwide.
"Countries have a notorious reputation for committing massive amounts of money when people are dying on television -- and then when the TV cameras turn off, they don't give the money," Clinton said. ... story
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