Posted on January 16th, 2007 by Marian Houk
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 [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on January 14th, 2007 by Marian Houk
As a result of a question from an informed journalist in the regular UN Noon Briefing in NY last Froday, we now know that on 21 December 2006, in one of his last acts in office, former UN SG Kofi Annan told the UN General Assembly that he would not be sending a team to [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Kofi Annan, UN General Assembly, UN Secretary-General
Posted on January 4th, 2007 by Marian Houk
…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, Transition, UN Administration, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General, US in UN
Posted on December 31st, 2006 by Marian Houk
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, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council
Posted on December 21st, 2006 by Marian Houk
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, senior UN official sent to Khartoum by the Secretary-General to follow up on the three-phase approach to the deployment of peacekeepers in Darfur, met with Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir Thursday and delivered a letter from UN SG Kofi Annan (the letter has since been circulated to the members of the UN Security Council). The UN Spokesman told journalists at [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan, Sudan - Darfur, UN Secretary-General
Posted on December 20th, 2006 by Marian Houk
UNSG Kofi Annan told journalists that “Jan Eliasson would work the diplomatic channels. He will be working mainly outside Sudan, working with capitals and Governments and encouraging them to stay engaged to support our efforts and to work with us in Darfur in our search for a solution. We will designate a new Special Representative [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Kofi Annan, Sudan - Darfur, UN Security Council
Posted on December 19th, 2006 by Marian Houk
In an article about the evacuation of 71 UN workers from the largest refugee or displaced persons camp in Darfur on Wednesday, following a raid on their compund by gunmen, the AP (Associated Press) is reporting that the former UN Special Envoy for Sudan, Dutch politician Jan Pronk said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that “Khartoum denies backing [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan, Sudan - Darfur, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on December 19th, 2006 by Marian Houk
The Special Commission of Inquiry also recommends against the establishment of an International Criminal Tribunal, but urges international reinforcment and aid to the domestic justice system. These recommendations in the report of the Independent Special Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste, which UNSG Kofi Annan sent to the UN Security Council in October, were make public today [...]
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Filed under: East Timor, Human Rights, Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on December 19th, 2006 by Marian Houk
“I am still at work. I shall be in the office all this week, and I will still be available next week if I am needed. And of course I will continue until midnight 31 December”, outgoing UNSG Kofi Annan told journalists at a farewell press conference at UNHQ on 19 December. In remarks to [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General
Posted on December 18th, 2006 by Marian Houk
From the SG’s 12 December 2006 report on the progress being made into investigating the killing of Rafik Hariri (S/2006/962): “The Commission’s strategic objective remains to collect evidence against those responsible for the assassination of Rafik Hariri and the other victims of attacks being investigated that will be admissible before a future tribunal. It continues [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights, Kofi Annan, Lebanon
