Salim Lone, the spokesman for Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed in the truck bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad in August 2003 — who was earlier the Director of the Media Division in the Department for Public Information at UNHQ/NY, is now apparently working as spokesman for the angry opposition who say [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan Watch, Salim Lone watch
In her blog, The Rosett Report, investigative journalist Claudia Rosett of Oil-For-Food fame, wrote a post on 8 November, “Speaking of Public Servants Living the Good Life — Remember Mark Malloch Brown?”
Rosett’s post continues: “Of course you do. Kofi Annan’s former deputy, former chief of staff, former head of the UN Development Program; now Lord [...]
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Thanks to our dear friend Adnan, here is some news you will not read in many other places — it was published in Al-Quds, the Palestinian Arabic-language newspaper published in Jerusalem: ex-UNSG Kofi Annan, here with a delegation of some 10 well-connected do-gooders led by himself and Ted Turner (”We want to help”, Turner [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Kofi Annan Watch, Palestine & Palestinians
The Israeli Government Press Office has just sent out an UPDATE to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s schedule today — announcing a meeting early this evening with former UN SG Kofi Annan as head of a delegation of the “UN Foundation” [I think they mean "Annan's" Global Humanitarian Forum, which was just officially launched on [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan Watch, Quartet, United Nations
Fox news and the BBC World Service are both reporting that Benon Sevan has been indicted in connection with some kind of financial irregularities in the UN’s Oil-For-Food programme, which Benon Sevan directed — but why is there nothing yet on the websites of the FBI, or the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, or INTERPOL?
The Fox News story [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan Watch, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
…whether or not new SG BAN KI-MOON is unable to break away from old traditions, as the NY Sun suggests in an article today. In the first place, it would be almost impossible for even the canny BAN, and even with his sharp South Korean-led transition team, to be well-versed, yet, in the UN’s “old traditions”. BAN’s [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan Watch, Transition, UN Administration, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General, US in UN
In the last few hours of Kofi Annan’s administration as UN Secretary-General, it is worth noting that his main achievements, according to him and his team, were (1) the Millennium Development Goals (which I treat elsewhere on this site), (2) getting the UN Security Council to proclaim that UN Member States have a responsibility to [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan Watch, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Salim Lone watch, Shashi Tharoor watch, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council
The Washington Post today carries an opinion piece on Kofi Annan’s term of office by William Shawcross, British former journalist and author of The Quality of Mercy, a great book about the limitations and contradictions of the international humanitarian effort to help Cambodians, who fled to Thailand during the 1979 Vietnamese invasion, after suffering in isolation during the traumatic Khmer [...]
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Filed under: Cambodia, Journalism and Journalists, Kofi Annan Watch, UN Secretary-General, Viet Nam
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty have interviewed a writer and/or journalist, James Traub, who contribtues to The New York Times Magazine, and who has written a new book, ”The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power” — according to RFE/RL, a detailed account of the inner workings of Kofi [...]
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In a bold step with a weakly-argued point, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has called on Libyan courts to review the death sentences imposed on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for the alleged intentional transmission of HIV to hundreds of children — in light of evidence showing that [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan Watch, Libya, Torture, United Nations Agencies and Programmes