Posted on 12/05/2005 7:21:30 PM PST by ncountylee
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador John Bolton on Monday criticized Secretary-General Kofi Annan's intention to fire his election unit director only 10 days before polls in Iraq.
Two senior U.N. officials told Reuters over the weekend that Annan had decided to dismiss Carina Perelli, a 48-year old Uruguayan sociologist accused of harassment of staff and management lapses.
"When the head of the office responsible for the U.N.'s role in elections is being subject to (removal), at least in press reports, you need to ask the question, 'What effect it will have on the ground in Iraq?'" said Bolton, who has repeatedly criticized U.N. management.
Perelli, 48, became a star at the world body for supervising polls in dangerous places like Afghanistan and Iraq. She will appeal the decision and has already met with her attorney, her associates said.
Voting in the latest of three elections in Iraq organized by Perelli's office, the U.N. Electoral Assistance Division, is scheduled for Dec. 15. President George W. Bush and other U.S. officials have praised her for her role in preparing earlier national polls in Iraq.
U.N. officials said they tried to give Perelli a dismissal notice on Friday and again on Monday. One official said she had to sign for the letter personally but apparently was not opening her apartment door.
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Sounds like a UN unit head. LOL
Guess they couldn't find any other problems that needed fixing.
I said at the time that the sexual harrassment charges sounded strange and bogus, and that maybe Kofi was firing her because she was one of the good guys.
Interesting to learn that Bolton agrees.
Kofi is the guy who needs firing, for starters.
The left's current talking point on Iraq is to question the legitimacy of the Iraqi government--see eg John Conyers and his fellow travelers in the dem party and their recent comments.
I suspect this firing is a move initiated at the request (wink wink) of our dems to get rid of someone who would legitimize the Iraqi government. Her replacement will not certify the election. Iraq is at a tipping point and the left desparately needs it to tip into chaos, rather than success.
Kofi is trying to scuttle the elections. Because in a free Iraq, the UN's involvement in stuff other than Oil for Fraud will come out such as the weapons inspections, etc.
If she would write a couple of $$B Checks, Coffee could clear all this up!! 100 Billion Dollar Scandal and the Stone Age Press doesn't seem to notice!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
bttt
Good point.
President Bush should say what he said to them before the Iraq war: Either give us your blessing, or we will go ahead and do it on our own, with as many allies as care to join us, and you will prove that you are irrelevant.
If the Dems try to work openly with Kofi on this business, then I think it will be time, and past time, for a confrontation. They would be on very shaky ground with this one, and the UN has lost almost all the naive faith that Americans used to have in it. I'd venture to say that almost its only fervent supporters now are leftists, and they are maybe a third of the electorate.
I think maybe Kofi has "jumped the shark" like Arnold. (Jump the shark >an obscure expression just make clear to me tonight in a Wikipedia article reference in another thread. Couldn't wait to use it. Regrets.)
The dems are evil but not that stupid. It's not going to be open. It will just happen that the woman who certified the last election and set this one up will turn out to be a serial sex harasser and the successor will realise, like John Conyer, that we are 'imposing' this election on the Iraqis and will, therefore, withold certification. The dems in their role as loyal opposition will then have no choice but to point out over-and-over thru their lap dogs in the Old Media that the election was flawed and not legitimate. It's how they did it in Vietnam.
I don't believe for a moment that this it is a coincidence that Conyers starts his illegitimacy campaign at the same time as the 'legitimzer' is fired by the UN.
I used the term 'loyal opposition' sarcastically. In the past 60 days, much of the left has moved into active treason. This is but part of that move. They cannot allow our effort in Iraq to succeed. The battle lines are well and truly drawn and the next twelve months will shape the world for decades to come. We are at an historic inflection point and the future of the world depends on the wisdom of the American electorate in the next twelve months.
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