Over at United Nations, lynchpin of America’s new Nobel-prize-winning multilateralism, it’s shaping up as the Year of Nepotism — again. Inner-City Press reports that the new president of the General Assembly, Libya’s Ali Treki, has his daughter, Amal Ali Treki, working in his UN office.
As Inner-City further notes, this follows the previous president of the UN General Assembly, Nicaragua’s Miguel d’Escoto Brockman, hiring a niece and nephew (Michael Clark, who likes the idea of a world without money) during his 2008-2009 stint presiding over the Parliament of Man.
This comes on top of the UN Development Program biting-and-nepotism ruckus earlier this year; while Inner-City’s questions about the ascent at the UN of Ban Ki-Moon’s son-in-law apparently remain lost in the labyrinth.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Mission to the UN has been promising to bring to America’s dealings with the UN — have you heard this before? — “high expectations for its performance and accountability,” including “financial accountability, transparency, ethics and internal oversight“…etc…. etc…. etc. Maybe the Obama adminstration should think smaller, and start simply by assembling, and releasing for the perusal of U.S. taxpayers, a directory of all family relationships in the UN system.
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1. David W. Lincoln:The willingness not to see. This is one of the odious aspects to survive the Second World War. Now, deformed souls with their paws on the levers of power, who know better, are still engaged in shovelling money, time and effort to prop up this monstrosity which is much more hindrance than help.
Oct 15, 2009 - 10:16 am 2. Delia:We [Americans] are being sent down the river.
Stock up now while you can. If you have a spare bedroom or closet, use it as a pantry.
Things are going to get really ugly.
The ‘thinning of the herd’ is coming.
Oct 18, 2009 - 3:15 am 3. bourne2y:My recollection is that UN staffers snicker at Americans, both at the UN and in America.
Too often, they are correct in doing so. But that is not always a fault in the UN staffers – all too often, it is because of the Americans’ snickerable behavior.
Oct 21, 2009 - 3:33 pm