Posted on 03/07/2006 12:45:05 PM PST by SmithL
UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged U.N. member states Tuesday to approve an overhaul of the world body's operations that would include a 2,500-member rapid reaction team to help millions facing hunger, violence and terrorism.
After decades of piecemeal reform, Annan told the 191 members a radical overhaul is needed because current United Nations rules and regulations "make it very hard for the organization to conduct its work efficiently or effectively."
Since the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, he said, the United Nations has changed from an organization of conferences and meetings to a global body engaged in peacekeeping, humanitarian relief efforts, electoral assistance and human rights monitoring.
Annan's proposed shakeup, detailed in a report, would create a mobile civil service and convert 2,500 short-term peacekeeping positions into a new, flexible team that can be deployed quickly in urgent peacekeeping and political missions.
It would also allow a one-time staff buyout costing about $100,000 per person, modernize U.N. information technology systems, and consider outsourcing translation, editing, printing, payroll, medical insurance and computer support services.
The proposals are a response to last year's investigation into the U.N. oil-for-food program, which blamed shoddy management in part for widespread corruption. It cited weaknesses in oversight, accountability, responsibility and structure.
. . . U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said "the notion of a radical overhaul is exactly what we've been suggesting."
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Somebody hears the footsteps.
Overhaul that P.O.S. right out of Turtle Bay and into Antarctica
side note: Watch for rules change to allow bj clintoon to become leader of the world (U.N.) and then start ORDERING the USA around. Just in time for massive election fraud to get Hilliary elected (with UN elecion 'observers')
Translation: Kofi needs to restructure graft and bribery so it's harder to track.
Do I detect a barn door closing long after all the horses are gone?
I have a better idea
Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S!
Anybody agree?
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