terrorists to replace his beloved Arafat, and new slaves.
FLASHBACK: Annan, Emperor of Terrorists, eagerly, licks AIDs-sputum from his favorite serial murderer of Americans.
Posted on 11/19/2004 4:44:21 AM PST by Ginifer
UNITED NATIONS - UN employees were readying on Friday to make a historic vote of no confidence in scandal-plagued Secretary General Kofi Annan, sources told AFP.
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 its support for the embattled Annan and 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.
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.
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.
Candusso noted that Eckhard’s declaration to the press had said that “no further action was necessary in the matter.”
But in a letter sent to the union, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, Annan’s chief of staff Iqbal Riza said Nair had been ”advised that he should exercise caution” in future to “minimise the risk of negative perception.”
In a resolution set to be adopted on Friday, the union said Riza’s statement “substantiates the contention of the staff that there was impropriety” and that there exists “a lack of integrity, particularly at the higher levels of the organisation.”
The draft resolution, also obtained exclusively by AFP, calls on the union president to “convey this vote of no confidence to the secretary general.”
Staffers who asked not to be named, afraid that speaking out could damage their future prospects in the United Nations, said the Nair decision was emblematic of widespread corruption by Annan and his senior staff.
They noted that Riza, UN undersecretary general for communications Shashi Tharoor and other top officials had served directly under Annan at least since 1994, when he was head of UN peacekeeping operations.
At the time, the United Nations was widely criticised for failing to stop the Rwanda genocide that left 800,000 people dead, even though UN peacekeepers were on the ground -- a catastrophe for which Annan has publicly apologised.
Annan could not be reached for immediate comment. He is currently in Africa on a high-profile mission aimed at ending the long-running civil war in Sudan.
NOVEMBER THAT MONTH THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!!!!!
This has been a pretty good month for Republicans.
Bush re-elected.
Daschle defeated.
Arafat dead.
Scott Peterson guilty.
Annan to get no confidence vote.
Cutting loose the goat.
Looks like everyone smells which way the wind is blowing and is putting as much distance between Kofi and the fan as possible.
Before anyone gets too excited, one should remember exactly how much weight a U.N. resolution (coming from any quarter) seems to given.....especially by the U.N. itself.
Hello....the fact that the UN basically funded the Palestinian suicide bombers (through Saddam) should be a wake-up call to somebody.
Of course, I don't expect much out of the UN itself, since it is basically an anti-semitic organization that allows the worst abusers of human rights a place of honor at the table.
FLASHBACK: Annan, Emperor of Terrorists, eagerly, licks AIDs-sputum from his favorite serial murderer of Americans.
Its funny Kofi steals million from oil for food and they give him a no confidence vote for pardoning a guy for sexual harrassment. Priorities.
Finally! That guy is so corrupt and incompetent. Too bad he has been there this long.
Thorough probe finds no evidence of wrongdoing by UN official
UN News Centre -
16 November 2004 – An exhaustive probe has cleared the head of United Nations internal oversight services of alleged staff rules violations and has found no ...
Im so glad this Media Giant has chosen to run with this story. That explains why I'm hearing in every radio and tv station...not.
Don't get too excited. It's only wind.
Bill Clinton!
I can't believe AFP would report on this--especially with the employees commenting on Coffee's corruption and the corruption of much of the top tier...
Is it possible that they're willing to sacrifice a whole gaggle of their own in order to save the miserable carcass of the UN?
I'm sure whoever would succeed these criminals would be just as bad given that the countries involved in supporting the "top tier" are just as filthy and corrupt as Coffee & Co. The scam must go on.
The UN has truly become the French state when a Union gets to have a non-confidence vote on the leadership.
But maybe everyone especially the member countries (since it is only their vote that counts) will jump on the bandwagon and get rid of this joke.
Is it Annan's fault - or is the organization itself rotten to the core?
I heard on Fox last night that he was -- uncharacteristically -- out of the country to suddenly (after what, 20 years?) tend to Sudan. I assumed there must be an ulterior motive.
The American people have given Secretary General Kofi Annan a vote of no confidence a long time ago. The bum needs to be fired and put in jail with all of his cronies.
This is why I'm wondering if Chirac et al are trying to sacrifice Coffee & Co. in the hopes that they themselves can hide in the shadows. I don't think it's gonna work.
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