UNITED NATIONS — A union representing United Nations (search) staff has voted "no confidence" in senior management
but stopped short of singling out Secretary-General Kofi Annan (search).
The vote is largely symbolic and has no effect over any U.N. officials'
jobs. But it isn’t a good sign for the top leaders' effectiveness as heads of
the world body.
It is the first time in the labor organization’s history that it has
cast such a vote, which happened behind closed doors Friday afternoon at U.N.
headquarters in New York.
The move was in response to a series of scandals plaguing the United
Nations under Annan’s leadership.
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Mata Musing: Well I'll be... Speak up, boys and girls. There's no time like the present.
2 comments:
Kicking out Kofi Annan, while satisfying, may not be beneficial at this time. His departure could open a power vacuum for pro-radical Islamists to control the UN.
I have no love loss for the Untied Nations, but that old saying about close friends and closer enemies?
Actuallly, TrekMed, the UN honchos stopped short of including Kofi in the distrusted bunch. But considering the Sec-Gen is an elected position by a bunch of unelected members, I doubt there would be much difficulty finding a replacement who could be equally as ineffective.
As to the Islamics control over UN, you should check out the voting records and you will find that, as a rule, most the voting goes against the US (and pro Islam) 85% of the time approx, and against Israel 100%.
Looks like the Muslims already exert far more control than their population numbers warrant thru UN membership countries.
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