Staff revolt gathers pace at UN

Times
James Bone in New York reports
Protest against top management is an embarrassment for Kofi Annan

KOFI ANNAN’s top managers at the United Nations are facing a staff revolt that has gathered pace since the bombing of the UN office in Baghdad.

Staff representatives adopted a resolution yesterday criticising senior management after a string of clashes during the past year with their bosses at UN headquarters. The rebellion is an embarrassment for Mr Annan, and comes as he faces intense criticism for corruption in the UN’s “Oil-for-Food” programme in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

The UN chief suffered another blow yesterday when he was forced to admit that civilian and peacekeeping personnel on UN duty in Congo had committed acts of gross misconduct.

Officials plan to make public on Monday the lurid results of their investigation into UN officials having sex with under-age local girls. Responding to staff complaints yesterday, the UN managers offered to hold talks next week with the elected president of the UN staff union, which represents thousands of UN workers and around the world.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1366745,00.html

things are only going to get worse at the UN. Unless, the rest of the world wakes up and does something about the power vacuum that the US has left behind.

there's no hope of any progress in this one....

Or filled with Bush cronies who don't give a shit?

London posting is that the US Embassy has lost it's ambassadorial residence Winfield House in Regent's Park Outer Circle, in a lawsuit last summer.

So no place to park any post-Farish incumbent....unless Poodle of course comes up with some bijou little property...maybe on the Isle of Dogs????

Wow. In countries with an 'age of consent' at 12 or younger, that's REALLY robbing the cradle. Unreal!