Posted on 05/12/2006 5:08:09 AM PDT by unionblue83
In a recent interview, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton described the UN as hopelessly out of touch and stuck in a Twilight Zone-style "time warp" where "there are practices, attitudes and approaches that were abandoned 30 years ago in much of the rest of the world." [1] Bolton's cutting analysis perfectly captures the latest controversy to hit Turtle Bay—Secretary-General Kofi Annan's appointing German activist Achim Steiner as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) just months after Steiner helped award Annan $500,000. [2]
Steiner, whose four-year term of office will begin next month, was part of a nine-member jury chaired by a senior UN official that awarded Annan $500,000 last December. Annan's initial decision to accept such a huge cash gift, as well as his subsequent appointment of a man who had played a key role in the award of that money, [3] gives the appearance of a major abuse of power. Both were extraordinary acts of political recklessness by a Secretary-General who has overseen some of the biggest scandals in UN history, from the Oil-for-Food and procurement scandals to peacekeeping abuses in the Congo and elsewhere. This latest scandal inevitably gives the impression that jobs at the world body may be traded for financial favors. As well, the Steiner appointment further reinforces the unflattering portrait of the UN as an unaccountable institution that acts without regard to public opinion or the concerns of its member states.
(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...
Don't you think they should name a panel to set up the committee?
On FOX this a.m., it showed Annan saying the U.S. has to cut back on it's rhetoric on Iran. (What the......????)
look at oil prices, estimate the increase in f*** head's buying power
WRT the headline, Anan needs to be fired and indicted. In a just world he would already be in prison, as head of the largest criminal organization in the world, making the Mafia - Italian, Russian, and Chinese - look like amateurs!
PAYOLA is alive and well in Kofi's "reformed" neighborhood.
One of my Bolton favorites...
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