Business as Usual - Corruption and conflicts of interest at the U.N.

OpinionJournal.com ^ | October 27, 2005 | Claudia Rosett

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Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT

Few outside U.N. circles have heard of IHC Services, a private company that for years was one of hundreds of firms selling goods and services to the U.N. As a rule, the U.N. keeps secret most details of these deals. But scandals involving IHC have begun lifting the lid on how the U.N. handles taxpayers' money.

The IHC story suggests that the U.N.'s failures of governance are not confined to such special projects as the Oil for Food program. If anything, Oil for Food looks more and more like a large outcropping of U.N. business as usual.

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FTUN

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FTUN

and their enablers, too.

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I second that motion!