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On Congo, UN Can't Say If Nkunda's Ousted, No New Troops,
from
LRA, No Protection
At UN, Ban's Town Hall Has Pre-Screened
Questions, on G-to-P Injustice
UN "Caught Off
Guard" by Bombing of Gaza, Aware of Sewage Dangers
UN
Panned, Praised by Fox and New Yorker, 24 and
Harr on Chad
As
Tanks Roll Into Gaza, UN Council Meets, Fireworks at
Stakeout
UNder Ban, Ethics Fiefdoms, Moves
to
Charge Press Rent, Favoritism and Photo Ops
On Gaza, UN Envoy Has No Casualty Figures,
"Not Aware," No Comment on LRA from Congo to CAR
Vietnam Outlaws News Blogs, Claims
Foreign Servers Will Help, UN Security Council Review
At UN, Somalia Peacekeeping Dream Dies a Quiet
Death before New Years, US Buckles
At UN's Gaza Meeting, Croatia Corrects CNN Report They Leave
the Council on Jan. 1
At UN at Gaza, New Year's Eve Meeting Is Called
"No Joke" by Arab League As Air Strikes Continue
UN
Helps Congo Attack LRA, Can't Protect Civilians Then
Disclaims Any Role, as in Kivus
On Gaza, New Year's Eve Council Meeting, Missiles and
Protests on 42nd Street, Casualty Confusion
On Gaza, UN's "62 Civilian Casualties" Misstatement Goes
Global, On Wires, Wall Street and Sky News
On Gaza, Egypt Blames Blockage of Rafah Crossing on
"Other Party," Strange Bedfellows Noted
UN Quietly Reports Over 100 Killed in Congo by LRA
After "Well-Judged" Attack on Group
Gaza Casualties Disputed, UN Implies Killed Men
Are Not Civilians, Ban Takes No Questions
As Gaza Air Strikes Continue, UN's Ban Finally Speaks
to Quartet, Blair Speaks of Fatah If At All
At UN, Competing Gaza Drafts
Result in Surprise Passage, Israel Dodges PGA d'Escoto, Where is Obama?
On Gaza, UN PGA d'Escoto Fires Back from Nicaragua
as Council Begins Speeches
UN Council President Meets Arab League on Saturday on Gaza,
Belated Response
For UN, Ban's Meeting with Israel Was "Purely a Courtesy
Call" In Run-Up to Air Strikes
At UN, Nigeria Gives Myanmar
$500,000, Bypassing UN Programs, Also UN-Transparent
UN Ends Year Refusing to Answer on Africa, Larsen
and OIOS, Passes Buck to Others
As UN Budget's Passed, G-77's Champagne Dreams Echoed
by Nicaraguan Priest, OIOS and Larsen Challenged
Final UN Budget Drafts Hit Nairobi Corruption, Reinstates
Africa Advisor
UN Budget End Game Turns on Roed Larsen's
Conflicts, Playing Poker with Arms Trade
UN Investigator's Work Criticized in Draft Resolution,
Cronyism and Delay, Replacement Search to Begin
UN Budget Targets Africa Advisor, Oversight of Roed Larsen in
Lebanon, Permanent Contract Gone
UN Budget
Compromise Closes in on 92 Jobs, Arms Trade and Durban II May Trigger
Vote
At
UN, 10% of Ban's Budget Faces
Axe, on 36% Proposed Hike, UN Has No Comment
At UN, As Some in
Budget Process Try to Exclude Press, Others Leak, Christmas Eve
Prediction
UN's Hiring from Permanent Five Grows, China by 8%, US by 134
Jobs, Japan Slower While Others
Lose
In UN Budget Committee, Poor
Versus Rich, 90 New Jobs, While Oracle Is Paid for Unused Licenses
UN Wastes $3 Million on 30,000 Oracle Licenses Left Unused,
Budget Committee No
Comment
At UN, Korean Staff Rise from 51 to 70 in Ban's Two
Years, on Pianos and Lobbyists
At UN, Budget Committee Mulls
Valencia Base, Office Rent and Contracts
As Fowler Invited Himself to Niger, Did He Create
His Own UN Mandate in Niger?
Chad's Landing Fees Ground Peacekeepers, Darfur 59%
Deployment Amid Double Standards
UN Global Compact Chief Says Corporations Are Victims Too, Lashes Out at Critic
UNDP Withholds Its North Korea Plans, Stonewalls on
Zim, Muzzles Kosovo, Niger Drive and Mine
Fowler's Niger Companion Guay Active in Mining,
UN Stonewalls on Their Mission
At UN, Dutch Pol Verhagen Explains Aid Cut to
Rwanda but not to Congo, Trusts Kabila or Structure
Suspended UN Pornographer Opposed
Gays, Liked Dogs, As Higher Ups Escape
UK and UK Split on Kenya Explains UN Council Disfunction,
S. Africa's Kumalo Describes
UN Envoy and UK Bless 3 Nations' Attack on LRA, All
Bets Off With Kony
Missing UN Envoy Visited UN-Founded Mine in Niger, Uranium
Extraction by Canadians Questioned
Condi Rice Chooses Somali Prime Minister Over
Pirate President, Dodges on Eritrea
As UN's Stealth Envoy Goes Missing in Niger,
Secret Process and Payments Questioned
The UN from Elite to Street, in a Party Season, Skanska
Captured, Fetes Lantos
UN, With Office in Turkmenistan, Assesses One-Party
Election But Won't Comment
At UN, d'Escoto Calls Quotes He Disagrees With a
Crime, Israel Cancels Meeting
Amid UN's Ministerial Hype, US Praises Departing
AMISOM, Sikhs Complain of France
UN Council Takes Up Vague Middle East Resolution,
Tony Blair Stays Silent
ABN-AMRO and ING Are Facilitators of Congo
Sanctions Violations, ICC Disclosure Not Solved
UN's Rwanda Prosecutor Says He Cleared Karenzi,
Contra Navi Pillay, No News On Nepali Generals
Deaths in Congo Are Explained Away by UN,
Lack of Translators and Cars Par for the Course
At UN, China Complains Its Name Was
Erased, Blair By Video Only, Croatia
Takes No Questions
As UN's Obasanjo's Accused of Bias, UK's Milliband
Due in NY for Zim, Blair Won't Talk Until February
UN Peacekeeping Ripped by Ramsey
Clark and Congo Doctor, Even HRW's Roth
Nigeria Rejects UN Involvement in Delta,
Greece Likes Ban's No Comment, NY Bricks Are Thrown
At UN, Fake Out at the Stakeout, Morocco Takes the
Stage Denied to Polisario Front
At UN, Global Compact's Coke and
Nestle Under Fire, Advisor Barlow a Transparently Cheap Date
As Greece Burns in Police Shooting's Wake, UN's Ban
Has No Comment, and Letters Not Received
At UN, Ms. Albright Talks Genocide While Dodging on
Rwanda Votes of 1994
UN's Pillay Says While Few States
Discipline Abusive UN Troops, They Are Needed
UN was "Disrespectful" In Approach to
Aung San Suu Kyi, NLD Leader Says
Swept Under the TARP, Grabs by GMAC, PHH and CIT, Wachovia's
Sewers
Questions About Jamaat ud Dawa and
UN's Pakistan Aid in Mumbai's Wake
Behind Myanmar's Bluster, Gas Deals for Daewoo,
China and India, UN's Ban No Comments
When UN Loses Money to Dictators, It Resists
Disclosure, Unlike Even Corporations
UN in Congo, Genocidaires Into Moral Vacuum,
Zero Follow-Through on Sexual Abuse Charges
UN Mine Action Calls Chechnya a Country, Uses
Troubled UNOPS, Downplays Ossetia Cluster Bombs
UN Amid Backsliding Heads to
Poznan, WMO in Chaos, UN Safety Saga Goes Without Update
With UN Justice Delayed, Ban Blames Member States,
Rushes Ad on Intra-Net, Leaves No Remedy
As Libyan Ship Blocked by Israel, Echoes of France
and Myanmar, Free Gaza and Somali Toxic Waste
ICC's Moreno Ocampo Learned
Nothing from Lubanga Case, Laughs at Retaliation Finding
In UN's Silent CAR Alarm, Impunity for Assassinations, Civilians Still Unprotected
Who Investigates UN Investigator Ahlenius is Raised
by Unsigned Letter Which Ban Dismisses
At UN, Pride like Mugabe May Exclude Kofi Annan,
Blair Resists Agenda, France Protects Its Turf
UN Piracy Resolution Dodges Toxic Waste and Sinking
of Wrong Ship, Somali TFG's Sphere to Shrink
Citi Sleaze with Bail-Out, of Junkets and Spanish
Highways, PNC and Ocwen Need Hearings
At UN, Re-Sale of AIDS Drugs and Zimbabwe
Diversions Downplayed, As Ban Met Mugabe
As UN Pleads in Doha, For
Money and with Mugabe, Who Will Bail
Out UN's $12 B Pension Loss?
As UNICEF Drugs Resold in Sierra Leone and Holiday Cards
Misrun, UN's Ban Is Silent
At UN, Corruption Within
Investigative Unit Is Alleged, Unit's Chief Ms. Ahlenius Declines All
Comment
In Doha, UN's Ban Praises Turner While Zoellick Is Absent,
UNDP Elusive
Amid Congolese Chaos, NGOs Are Split on Nkunda,
FDLR and Camouflage for UN Mission
UN Accepted Mugabe's
Exchange Rate in Zimbabwe,
Refuses to Disclose Losses As In Myanmar
UN Council Fails to Act on India Shooting Spree,
Waiting for Word, Going on Vacation (updated)
UN Silent on Cypriot Tensions, What a
Downer, UNIFEM Forgets FYROM
While UN Says Kosovo Trust Agency Budget Is Not Public,
UK Calls for Transparency
With Afghan Rifts of UN and Australia, Karzai and Obama,
Mullah Omar Returns
Snubs by Bush and World Bank Recounted on UN's Road to
Doha by Miguel d'Escoto
UN Denounces Gender Violence But Takes No
Questions or Actions on Peacekeeper Abuse
As Cyprus and Greece Protest Turkey, Where Is UN's
Downer, Ban's Envoys Strangely Upbeat
As UNDP's Dervis Dodges on Dome-Gate, Will Doha Be
a Dud?
Stealth Chinese Resource Deals
Link UN's Obasanjo to Congo and Kabila, Conflict of Interest Alleged
With Subprime Citigroup at Trough, What Would Rubin's
Geithner Do?
UN Dodges Africa, Funding and Justice Questions,
Ready on Israel, Weak Week
On Kosovo, EU's Solana Urges Ban to End Delay,
Greece about the River, Pirates Press Ahead
Satiric
Film About UN Triggers Question, Who Let Its Makers
In?
In Congo, 3000 Troops But UN Still in White
Fortresses, France - Rwanda Rift Downplayed
At UN, Justice System Faces Year-End Collapse as
JDC Chairman Now Resigns
At UN, Costa Rican Openness Founders on W. Sahara, FOIA
Leaves Swiss Dubious
On Climate, UN Lobbies Itself, On Migration It Tells the Poor
to Go Home
UN Talks Child Soldiers But Lets Recruiters Off,
On Manipur a Slow Start
UK May Hold Pirates Without Legal Authority,
UK Guantanamo Bay Alleged, UN Silent
At UN, Ban's Justice
Delayed May be Justice Denied,
Ms. Migiro's Ruling May Predict the Future
Costa Rica on Arms and Openness At War With UN's
Secrecy Culture, What Is It Good For?
UN Leaves Civilians Outside Congo Bases,
Peacekeepers are Absent, Kerim Is In Kinshasa
At UN, Georgia Denies Ukrainian Backing, Longs for
NATO and Dismisses Hanging Threats
As Spain Uses Int'l Cooperation Funds for Dome,
UN Denies, Ban Ignores
Bolivian President and Nicaraguan Priest
Slam Catholic Hierarchy, French Copters Not in Darfur
On Congo, Obasanjo
Is Optimistic, Theron on Abuse by UN Peacekeepers, General Wants Camouflage
UN Denies Development Aid Used for $25 M
Ceiling, "Voluntarily Funded" Disaster Post Left Murky
As UN Policeman Stabs Liberian Counterpart, No
Justice in Monrovia, No Comment in NY
In London, Lord Levene Continues in Myanmar with
Lloyds and Total, UN Stands Pat
As Spain Uses Aid Funds For Stalactite Ceiling at
UN, Ban's Travels Seen from LA and Europe
On Congo, UN's Troop Count Is 1500 Off as London Calling
Different on Others' 3000
UN's Larsen Refuses
Ban-Requested Financial Disclosure As Conflict Questions Raised on
"Peace" Event and Lebanon
In UN's Culture of Peace, Pomp and Sleaze Compete
With Middle East Politics
At UN, Amid Congo Castration and UN Buckpassing, UK
Denies Dithering
UN Peacekeepers Can't Contrain Congo Army Abuses,
NGOs Split on Speaking with Nkunda
UN's D'Escoto Favors Banning
Defamation of Religion, But Hasn't Seen the Resolution
At UN, Team Ban's Culture of Secrecy, Exclusion and
Amnesia, Hiding in Plain Sight
In Nepal, UN Is Counting Guns
But Not Controlling, Terai Cries Misunderstood
In Ban's UN, Pomp and Secrecy on Congo, Asia and
Quartet, Closed Meeting
After Haitian Collapse, UN Uses Batons But No Building
Codes, School Chief Said Arrested
In the Congo, Angolan Troops or Angola-Trained, Lost
in Translation With the UN
UN In Denial as Congolese Army
Works With Paramilitaries, Angolans, Let Them Eat Soap
In Liberia, UN Staffer Jailed for Child Support,
Immunity Would Have Applied Like More Serious Abusers
At UN, Russia Wins Budget Seat Over Georgia, as
Cuba Bangs on Missing Tables
UN Assembly President Lashes Out on W. Sahara,
Obama Diplomacy, Oil Sands Viewed by Expert
At UN, Briefing Bans Myanmar, Somalia and Nkunda Talks,
Mandate Unclear
At UN, Election of ICJ Judges Is Archaic, Somali
and French Electioneering
Ban's UN Tries to Outsource Kosovo Questions,
Partial Answers Don't Assure a Second Term
At UN, Ban's Call for Staff Reform Seen as Slashing Benefits
as US Mission Wants
On Obama vs. Osama, UN's Ban Says Bombs Away, Second Term in
Mind, Some Opine
At UN, Racism Expert Omits
Myanmar like NGOs from Durban II
At UN, Lame Duck Labor Moves by US, Georgian War on
Budget, Chinese ID Follies
In UN Council, Myanmar and Mugabe in Footnotes,
Demand for Tony Blair, Kosovo Wide Open
Voting in the South Bronx, Names Not on
Lists, Few Choices on Paper Ballots
In Congo, UN Spins Amid Hutu Rebels and Kabila's
Friends, Denies Retreating and Abuse
Cash Hard to Come by in Gaza, Development Scarce as
Tony Blair Wears Too Many Hats, UNRWA Head Says
As Arms Trade Treaty Opposed by Zim and USA,
Ukraine Denies Shipping Tanks to S. Sudan
At UN, Stiglitz Slams Chase For Misuse of
Bailout, Federal Reserve for Predatory Lending
As Congolese Army Loots and Flees, UN Patrols Goma
But Says It's Not Responsible
Congo Chafes at UN Council Statement's FDLR
Reference, Diaz Puts Valencia Base in Play?
At UN on Congo, Francophonie Claims, Talk of Using
Entebbe, Nkunda Outside Goma
Despite Condi Rice Memo, UN's Nimetz Claims to Act
Alone, Name Issue Arms Congo
Human Rights Brought Low in UN Basement, North
Korea Fight Back, Crack Down on the Press (updated)
In
Congo, UN's Doss Calls for the Return of Artemis, As
Nkunda Draws Closer
In
Famine Wars at UN, Russia Charges Bias by Secretariat,
d'Escoto's Different Tale
UN
Security In Chaos, Henn Leaves A Former Pension Cashier
in Charge as Car and C.V. Questions Mount
UN Dodges Its Own Bullets in Congo, Its Aid in
Somalia, Haiti and Budget Cuts, Who's FYROM?
UN Expert Says Biofuels Are Like Blood
Diamonds, Myanmar and Forced Labor, Antitrust is Needed
UN's Habitat Engages with Angola Despite Evictions,
UNICEF Irregularities and in Nairobi
At UN, Chomsky and Ramsey Clark, Socialists and Socialites,
Advise Nicaraguan
Assembly President, Kennedy Expenses?
As UN Denies Pakistan Snub, Ex-Envoy Akram
Joins Houston Oil Co., Kerim for FYROM President?
UN's Ban Confirms Two Percent Cuts, Developing Countries
Say Slush Fund Is Theirs
UN Advised to Screen Peacekeepers for Torture, Laxity on
Myanmar Allows Evictions, Nukes
As Georgia Tries Abkhaz Blockade,
UN Calls It a Sovereign Right, EULEX Goes American
At UN, Caribbean Lobbying, Banning of Questions,
UNEP and Nairobi Financial Irregularities
Foundations at the UN, Exclusion, Favoritism and
Lack of Transparency in Security
UN Human Rights Envoys Strain to Praise Myanmar and
North Korea, Callibrated Capitulation?
UN Expert Says UK Misused Anti-Terrorism Law
Against Iceland, Another Questioned Angola
UNDP's Dervis Admits Paying Saakashvili Unwise,
Dodges on Congo Security and Kosovo Fees
US Bailout Will Subsidize Bank Monopolies, Chase and Goldman,
Excluding CRA and Public Review
With Indian Copters in Burma and Congo, Tanks for S. Sudan,
Arms Trade Treaty Called For
At UN, Buck Passing on
Privacy Breach, Dodging on Budget
Cuts, Ahlenius
in Hiding on Lockheed
At UN, W. Sahara Resolution
Approved,
Exploitative Fishing Continues, Pascoe's Murky Trip
At UN, Unanswered Questions on Sudan, Kosovo and
Kenya, Russia on McCain, Chinese Feasts
Sovereignty Disputed In UN Colonial Committee, UK
Amends "Trojan Horse" Supported by Spain and Chile
UN Admits Error in Publishing Staff's Signatures
and ID Numbers, No Accountability Yet
At UN, Musing of One-Term Ban by Obama and Russia,
Ramos-Horta in the Wings
On Sudan and ICC, Uganda Likes Deferral, Austria
and Mexico Want Justice, Iceland Denounces UK
At UN Council Vote, Icelandic Handshakes But
Austria and Turkey Said to Have EU Juice
UN Affairs Plagued by Questions of Cost, Waste and Lack of
Accountability, States Say
At UN, Russia and Georgia Spar Again on Child
Rights, Genocide and Cover-Up Charged
EU's Double Game with Turkey, Austria's Unstated
Right Wing Appeal, in UN Council Elections
At UN, Saudi Denies
Shipping Arms to Somalia, Sudan Makes Nice with
Ethiopia
On Georgia, UN Calls Russian Walk-Out
"Procedural," Dodges on Press Restrictions, Passes Buck
UN Labor Strife Puts Privacy and Safety at Risk, Online ID
Card Numbers and Signatures Published
FDIC Joins in Bail-Out, Shields Its Conference Calls and
Wachovia Deal
At UN, Forced Happy Talk on Afghanistan, Two
Officials Still Excluded, Not P.C. to Raise
As Iceland Seeks UN Council Seat on Installment
Plan, Sachs Pans US and Eliasson Lobbies
In UN
Affairs, Iraqi Envoy on Comedy
Central, Abkhaz in the Closet, More Congo Photos
As Congo Shows Photos, France Again
Takes Sides and UN Follows Suit, Diplomats Say
Manipur Conflict in India on UN's
Margins Despite Child Soldiers, Impunity and Press Restrictions
In Post-Hurricane Haiti, UN Peace Team Works on
Prisons from Hotel, UNDP Takes Fees
UN Orders Budget Cuts as Wall Street Meltdown
Creeps North, Iceland and Pledges In Doubt
UN's Road to Accountability Is Murky and Long But Reporters
Are Invited by Management's Kane
No Abkhaz in UN, No Georgia in Text, Russia
Pans Ban for NATO Deal
UN Report on Algiers Bombing Is Withheld, Role of
UNDP In Lower Defenses Too
As Serbia Wins UN Vote, Montenegro
Mysteries, UNDP and Napalm, Kosovo Trust Agency
At UN, Serbian Vote, FYROM-ic Name Game, Iceland's
Meltdown and Austria's Rightward Drift
UNDP's Evacuation of Jordan Building Confirmed by
UN, Unexplained by UNDP
As UN's Ban Tries to Lead Reform, 36 Officials and 172 Staff Say No , Mobility Stalled
UN W. Sahara Day Two, Of Elliot Abrams and
Malawi For Sale, Fishing Off Somalia
UN Ranges from
Shanghai Expo to Literacy Lunch, UNESCO's Friendly Face
With UN Report on Algiers
Bombing Late, UNDP Out of Jordan, Reports Say, N. Korean Kudos
At UN's Decolonialization Meeting, Restrictions on
Some Press, Western Sahara Stand-Off
Mass Evictions Ignored by UN in World Habitat Day in
Angola, As Arms Trial Begins
Citi - Wells, Collusion of Monopolists Even In
Crisis, Wachovia Carve-Up?
At UN, Democracy Does Not Mean Openness, Nicaraguan
Priest Preaches Family, Staff Picnic
UN in the Congo, Burning and Looting and Failing to
Follow Through, Dodging on Evidence
In Wachovia War, Wells Fargo Would Require Public
Notice and Comment, No Emergency
UN and
Microsoft, Conflicts of
Interest and Increased Non-Reporting, Tech Help
As UN Excludes the Press, Cuba Complains of VP's
Treatment to Committee on U.S. Relations
As Iran's Mottaki Speaks, Protest Pens Are Empty,
Journalists Are Searched
With US AfriCom in Stuttgart, Tanks for Sudan
Hijacked Off Somalia, UN Not Involved
Myanmar For-Ex Losses Hit 25%, Nobel Winner Quotes
ASEAN as Admitting, DPKO's Numbers
At UN, France's Ripert Chided by Sarkozy on Serbia
Resolution, of Belgian Banks
At UN, Ban Is Called "Not Invisible" By
His Aides, Myanmar Silence Unexplained
Russia's Lavrov Criticized UNDP for
"Privatized" Payments to Saakashvili for Soros
Citigroup - Wachovia Approved by Fed and Bush,
Public and CRA Excluded, Laws Repealed?
Subprime Stoked By Deregulation and Bipartisan Greed,
not CRA, Community Reinvestment Act
At UN, North Korea Charges Sex Slavery By Japan,
Sarah Palin's Pass
Cyprus Will Vote For Serbia's Kosovo Resolution,
France Still Silent on EU Position
On
Myanmar, UN's Ban Says He Can't Speak, Press Must Fight
for Access Even to Ministers
Aso of Japan Spends 10 Hours at UN, Carrots for
Myanmar, Silence on UNIC Finances
At UN, Tony Blair Scoffs At His $1 Million JPMorgan
Job, But Conflict of Interest Safeguards
As Chad Recruits Child Soldiers, France Claims It's
A Struggle, 25-Second Meeting with Ocampo
Yoda Speaks to Dead Cameras, Africa Ignored at the
UN, Burkina Faso Dissed
At UN, Spain's Zapatero Sends McCain His Regards,
Mulls U.S. Bail Out and Benefits
UN Brags of $16 Billion for Poor, Takes Few
Questions on It, Snub-Gate II for Brown
Mugabe Mobbed at UN, Nigeria Not Adverse to
Sanctions on His Zim
At UN, Norway and UN Differ on Rio Tinto, North
Korean Council Visit a Mystery
UN's Partners on Food Pricing Range from Monsanto
to Microsoft, Some Are Heartfelt
Serbia Questions France's Talk of Turbulence,
Disappearance of Funds from Kovovo
At UN, Green Funding Is Blood Oil Money As
Questions Are Excluded
At UN, Ahmadinejad Denies Locking Up Journalists,
Unless They "Infringe on Rights of Others"
Australia's Rudd Welcomes and
Helps Design U.S. Bailout, Zoellick Praises Cox' SEC
At UN, Of Celery and Stakeouts, Corporate Hype On
Annual Meeting's Sidelines
Finland Will Not Vote Against Serbia's Kosovo
Resolution, Bolivian Silence and Italian Vacillation
At UN, Iceland's Grants to Island States Are
Directed At Winning Security Council Seat
Sarkozy Not Opposed to Freezing Bashir Prosecution,
Preens for French Media on Wall St. Issues
Bernanke Claims Fed Not to Control AIG, Justifies
Morgan and Goldman Exclusion of Public
While Bailout Bills Vary from Senate to
House, Neither Would Stem Foreclosures
Fed Snubs Any Public Review In Making Goldman and
Morgan Bank Holding Companies
As Indictment of Bashir Arises at UN,
Moreno-Ocampo Accused of Ego and Errors
UN Dodges Bias in Africa, Won't Criticize Ethiopia,
Meets Obiang, Calls it Social Investment
In DC, Bailout Bill Pushed Beyond US,
to HSBC, Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Nomura
At UN, A Curried Goat Farewell to Mengesha,
Mobility Called Unhelpful
At UN, Russia - US Dispute Triggered Call for Security
Officers by Nicaraguan Priest (updated Sept. 25)
Afghanistan Resolution Slowed by Civilian
Deaths Raised by Russia, Cold War in UN
In UN Musical Chairs, Guehenno Returns as Advisor, Kerim on
Climate, Roed-Larsen's Connections
Khalilzad of US Defends Sima Samar, Sudan Has Denounced
After Signing ICC's Rome Statute
Re-Branding Responsibility to Protect, Gareth Evans
Says Somalia's Not Covered
At UN, Freezing Indictment of Al Bashir
Discussed by France, Sharing Evidence with ICC Dodged
AIG Bail Out Shows Fed's
Favoritism, Patrikis, Willumstad and
Revolving Doors
At UN, Doubts Grow Of ICC's Moreno-Ocampo, on
Lubanga and Uganda Abuses (updated Sept. 17)
UN's Responsible Investment Dodges Rights, Dervis Guns for
DSG Slot
At UN, Nicaraguan Priest Takes Helm and Swings
Left, New Cold War at the Movies
UN Remains Unreformed After Srgjan Kerim's Year,
Sarah Palin on Her Way
Alaska House in SoHo, Even Palin-Less, Is a Bridge
to Somewhere: But Where?
At UN, Questions of Who Can Read Whose E-mail,
Outsourced Computer Contracts
Bank of America - Merrill Would Violate 10% Deposit
Cap, Laws Snubbed by Subprime
At UN, Tonga's Prayers & MDG Hoopla, NGO Follies
from Ground Zero to Nauru
UN Dodges Questions of Sri Lanka Pull-Out and
Kosovo Cover-Up, UNDP Fees
In UNDP Secrecy Plan, Even Funders
Must Gives Reasons to See Audits, Board Must Be Notified
On Myanmar, UN Visits As
Possible Leverage, China
and India Want Groundcover
As Myanmar Arrests
Dissidents,
Its Group of Friends Meet at UN
UN's Ban in Solar Car Makes Hot Air But Shows
Promise of Electric Planes
UNDP's Funding of Saakashvili Causes Russian Uproar,
For-Ex Stonewalling Continues
On Myanmar, UN Belatedly Speaks, Claims It Has No
Leverage, Blames NLD, It Seems
UN's Ban Avoids Questions of New Cold War, U.S. War
on Terror, Excluded Journalists Speak
As US Tightens Insurance Sanctions on Iran, Lloyd's
of London Writes Myanmar Policies
In Georgia, Prior Notice by UN of Gori Trip
Disputed by Russia, Maintained by UN
Chaos in UN Budget and Chain of Command, Valencia
and Computers, Jobs for Prodi and Ross?
As Myanmar Defends N. Korea, UNDP Covers Up
For-Ex Losses, Mute on Revolving Door
As Russia Proposes Arms Embargo on Georgia,
Sarkozy's Dream World Exposed
At UN, Ingrid Betancourt Urges Ban to Act About
Myanmar, 15 Days of Silence Soon To Be Broken
At UN, From Togo Lies to Red Flags, Discrimination
and
Corruption Alleged
UN's Terror Victims Lack
Afghans, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and China, UNICEF Defends Links
UN Discusses Ceasefire with Zimbabwe's Ambassador, Against
Criticism of UN
(updated Sept. 11, Council briefing will be Sept. 17)
Charges of Secrecy and
"Hanky Panky" Haunt UN Terrorism Event, Ban Panned by
UNISERV
Subcrime Questions As Freddie Mac Handed to
Moffett of Carlyle and US Bancorp
At UN, Of Sri Lankan Letters
Lost, Tamil Tiger Cards Revoked, Sexed-Up Peacekeepers
At UN, Indigestion at Request for
Court Ruling on Kosovo Independence
Myanmar Silence at UN Half-Broken
by Kerim, Mysteries Continue, Currency Dodged
UNDP Admits Herfkens Broke Rules,
Dodges on Currency Exchange Losses
UN's Borg-Olivier, Warned
for Pro-Kosovo
Quotes, Is Paid Through UNDP to Advise Kosovo
At UN, Myanmar Briefing Looms
While Mauritania, Uganda and Sudan Fall Off Agenda
In Congo, UN Denies Shooting at
Protesters, Delays Copter Crash Benefits Answers
At UN, Zalmay Khalilzad Gets By
With a Little Help From His Friends
At UN, Press Relations Veer from
Stonewalling on Myanmar to Crackdown on Content
At UN, South Africa Wants to Hear
from Tony Blair, Saharan Christopher
As UN's Ban Says Nobody Follows
Him, He's Presiding Over Chaos on Ethics and Disclosure
UN's Solution of Herfkens
at $1 a Year Could Cost $100,000 in "Subsistence Allowance"
At UN in Kosovo, Harland Replaces Haysom, Borg-Olivier
and Trust Fund Need Review
At UNDP, Herfkens' Dollar Dodge,
Playing with UN Ethics, ACABQ Coup
On Myanmar, ASEAN
Diplomat Predicts Gambari's Replacement, Road Talk at BIMTEC
In Pronunciation War, Russians
are I-less in Abkhazia's Sukhum, South Ossetia Too
On Georgia, UN Council Devolves
to War of Words, Of Kosovo and TV Bombs
As UN Council Meets on Georgia,
Pandora's Box Is Open, Kosovo's Ghosts
At UN, Georgian Theater
Continues, Without Abkhaz and Ossetians for Now
Asked if UN Set Suu Kyi Up, UN
Remains Silent, Burma Under the Shroud of Turin
UN
Whistleblower in Tokyo Raises
Questions of Fraud, Cover-Up and Retaliation from Below
While UN Fudges on Georgia and
Kosovo, UNOMIG Head Dines Italian Alasania
Little Prospect of Security
Council Reform, Draft Working Group Report and Debate Show
UN Mission in Georgia Faces
October 15 End, Kosovo Precedent Looms, Ban is Missing
Gambari's Myanmar Visit
"Disappointing," UK Mission Says, UN Takes No Questions
At UN, Envoy to Zimbabwe Is
Blocked
at Gate, Security of Somalia and MDC
After US Bombing in
Afghanistan, At UN Russia Puts Out Draft
Condemnation
UN's Engagement with Saakashvili
Included $1500 a Month, Soros and Sweden Also Paid
UN's Gambari Denied A Meeting
with Suu Kyi, Not by Than Shwe But The Lady
UN's Gambari's Trips to Myanmar
Questioned, Without Answers, Photo-Op In Balance
At UN,
Russia Finalizes Georgia
Draft As Sarkozy's Add-On Points Are At Issue
UN Refuses to
Release Agreement
With EULEX in Kosovo
Between Russia and Georgia, No
Meeting of Minds, By Sarkozy's Design
UN's
Algiers Bombing Accountability
Report Is Late, Amid Music for Baghdad
As Sarkozy Drafts Sloppily, the World Catches a
Cold War
France's
Georgia Resolution Is
Dismissed by Russia, Wanting All 6 Points of Agreement In
At UN, Mauritania's Coup Is Just "Corrective Change," Pre-
and Post-Coup
Ambassador Says
At Olympics with UN, Blur of
Tourism and Commerce, Team Darfur and Sporting Goods
UN Terror Confab Has Only 3
Funders, Spain Wants Security Job Beyond UNIFEM and Base
(updated August 19)
UN in Sudan is Lost in
Translation and Typos, ICC Confusion and Mute on Mauritania
UN Defensive on
Sudan's Abyei, Silent on Georgia and Somalia,
Mauritania Coup Snafu
Musharraf's Resignation Recalls His Staged Appearance At UN,
Impunity Questions Loom
UN Dodges Myanmar Questions as Losses and Arrests Mount,
in Zimbabwe Too
Serbian Minister Says No Extradition of Kovacevic
to the US, on Kosovo Asks UN Court Ruling
On Currency Exchange Losses,
UN Starts Cover-Up in Myanmar
and Beyond
Expelled from Sudan, UN Peacekeeper Mops Up in
Eritrea, As UNIFIL Pays for Ships
Russia and Georgia in Propaganda War, UN's OCHA Is Called
One-Sided
Japan Gets UN Financial Post, Pays for UNDP-Backed
Cambodia Court
At UN in Congo, Gold and Dealing with Nkunda,
Sexual Threats and New Staff Complaints
Russian War on Internet, Reuters Accused as in
Lebanon then Rehabilitated
UN's Darfur Mission Mis-Served by Lockheed and
Donors, Agwai Says JEM's the Player
On Ossetia, Denials by Khalilzad of Foreign
Fighters, by Yerevan of Russian Planes in Armenian Bases
On Georgia, Weakened French Draft Draws Russian
Ire, Leninist Diplomacy on War Crimes
As Georgia is Bombed, Bush Mis-speaks and UN
Council Meets, Verbeke Resurfaces
ICC's Ocampo Dismisses Sudan's Process, Sudan
Dismisses Ocampo, of Moral Damages
At UN, Georgia Protesters Demand Council Action But
Veto Seems Sure
At UN, Georgia Ceasefire Stalemate, Russia Speaks of
Genocide and Kosovo
As UN Stalls on Georgia, Talk of Oil Pipelines and
Armenia Airbases
At UN, Georgia Claims Russia Spreads Conflict to
Abkhazia, Renouncing Force Rejected
UN Shrugs at Zimbabwe Amnesty Draft as Ban's Envoy is
Barred from Harare
On S. Ossetia, No Agreement at UN's Midnight
Meeting on Use of Force or Ethnic Cleansing
At UN, South Ossetia Shoot Out Trigger Late-Night
Council Meeting, Kosovo Echoes
At UN, Lockheed Lute to Head PBC, Spain Eyed for
Safety, How Will Irish Legal Chief Compare?
On Darfur, UN Dodges Rights and Justice, Cancels
Compact Meeting, U.S. Concerned
As Ban Fetes His Envoys' Nepal
Roles, Copter Co. Vertical-T is Suspended, UN Heats Up
UN's Ban Keeps Kosovo Report Secret, Sends Envoy,
Mauritania Coup Not on Radar
Spanish
Coins Face Stealth Sale by Secret Museum, Frank Lorenzo Is Said to
Change Hispanic Society
UN in Myanmar Still Losing 20% on
Currency Exchange, Asks for More, Problem Widens
Discrimination and Corruption in UN Alleged to Ban
by Whistleblower's Letter
At UN, Iran and Sudan Indictment Freeze Are Not on August's
Agenda, Ban's Heat-Up Is
The Strange, Short Tenure of UN's Verbeke in
Lebanon, Reports of Safety Threats
UN's Ban Distances Himself from Sudan's Bashir,
After Off the Record Lunch with Journalists
UN's Ban in Shirt-Sleeves, a Cooling Room Next
Door, Asked about Double-Standards by Fox
Darfur Mission Is Extended as U.S. Abstains,
Indictment of Bashir Denounced by China and "Majority"
UN in Kosovo Erred in Using Force, Withheld Report
Says, Passports Passed to Zim's Printer
Darfur Peacekeepers Left Hanging
As U.S. Opposes Note Indictment Freeze in Resolution
UN Base in Spain Still Is Not Approved, Despite Photo-Op
of Castle Made of Sand
At UN, Questions of Skanska's
Involvement in NJ Bribery Case and Cut-Back of Tours
On Darfur Resolution, Al-Bashir
Indictment Freeze To Get Mention, Sudan Claims, Vote Thursday
UN Peacekeeping Chief Guehenno Dodges On ICC and
Lockheed to the End, Still a Fond Farewell
Spending on Vanity Press History of UNAIDS Called a
"Detail" By Peter Piot Before Mexico Confab
U.S. Calls for End of
Myanmar For-Ex Rules After UN Admits Losses, UK Joins, France Silent
On Darfur, Playing Chicken with UNAMID,
Burkina-Faso's Selective Solidarity with AU
UN
Admits $10 M Exchange Loss in Myanmar, Says Will
Disclose Others Countries and Losses
Leaked Minutes Show UN Knew of 20% Loss in Myanmar 2
Weeks Prior to $300 Million Request
Leaked Minutes Show UN Knew of 20% Loss in Myanmar 2
Weeks Before $300 M Request
As UN
Lawyer Says Peacekeepers Work with ICC in
Congo, Sudan Aftermath Approaches
As Myanmar Tweaks Its Theft of UN Aid Funds from 25%
to 17%, Donor Anger at "Burma Shave"
As UN Admits 25% Loss in Myanmar, Demand for Return
of Cash Grows, No UNDP Answers
UN Legal Chief Michel Departs, Housing Subsidy
Questions Still Unanswered
UN's Darfur Negotiations On Bashir and ICC Pit
China and Libya Against France
UN Admits Currency Losses in Myanmar,
Won't Say How Much Lost or Why It Was Denied
UN Tours Barred from Security Council from August
1, Fire Code Fixes Not Made, Disabled Excluded
At UN, Cambodian Meeting
Postponed, Nepal Mission Shrunk, Political Prisoners in an Overcrowded
Room
UN Internal Justice Dominated by Management's
Lawyers, Whistleblower Restitution Denied
UN's Somalia Envoy Favors Referral to Ocampo, TFG
Promises Justice for Killers of Aid Workers
At UN, High-Level Friends of Myanmar Meet But Few
Speak, As Cambodia Is Urged to be Quiet
In Myanmar, UN Loses 25% of Aid in Currency
Exchange, Up from 15% Pre-Cyclone
At UN, 7 Countries Discussed by Ban with 19 US Congress
Members, But Not Somalia
Nepal Rift Shows India's Place in the UN, Who
Decides the Mandate and When to Leave
Gambari Says He Has Quit Niger Delta Post For Lack of
Time, Gordon Brown's Comments May "Create Problems"
With Russian Flights and Georgian IDPs, Non-Use of
Force Discussed at UN, Kosovo Echoes
A
Bronx Juror's Eye View: Gypsy Cab Crash
Gets One-Day Trial Nine Years Too Late
At UN,
Pillay for Rights Jobs Faces Abortion,
Competence and Durban Questions from U.S.
ICC's Ocampo's Cape Town Times As Darfur Was Sent
His Way Is Shown by Rejected Complaint
As India Criticizes UN's Ban on
Nepal, Will He Counter-Attack as on Zimbabwe?
ICC's Ocampo Mugs for "The Reckoning,"
Fired Whistleblower But ICC Will Pay the Damages?
UN Mulls Reducing Press Space and
Raising Costs, Reducing Access
Child Soldiers Recruited by Darfur Rebels JEM Raised
at UN, Development Spin Questioned
ICC's Ocampo Defends His
Africa-Only
Focus, His Strategy In Question
In Darfur, Lockheed is Late and Poor Performer, UN
Admits of No-Bid Contract
Myanmar
Exchange Rate Is
"Difficult," UN's Holmes Will Review in Yangon, Council June 24
As UN Charges Indian Peacekeeper of Consorting With
Congo Rebels, Discipline Is Questioned
At UN, Indictment of Bashir
Denounced by S. Africa, France Says "It's Not Too Late"
"Johnny Mad Dog"
Triggers Soldier
Debate, Treatment of Africa in Question
At UN, Only Some War Criminals Can Be Spoken With,
Only Some Ambassadors Can Speak
At UN, Downer and Blair Conflicts of Interest
Unaddressed, Vienna Compact Unfiled
UN's Ban
Slams Zim on Bias, But Lets Slide N. Korea and
Russia's Kosovo Critique
In Zimbabwe, Anglo-American Mining Says It's Held
Hostage, Defends Investing
China Opposes Any Sudan Indictments, Would Support
Suspending, Darfur Threat Level Raised
At UN, Zim Sanctions Killed
by Double Veto, Sudan and ICC Foreshadowed: Who Is Isolating Whom?
UN Admits Losses to Myanmar Junta Through Currency
Exchange, NGOs Skirt with Hawala
In Darfur,
Australia Says UN Has
Suspended Deployment, Suspension of Indictments Discussed
UN's Ban Dodges Questions While
His Spokesperson Blocks and Ignores Them
Myanmar Restrictions on
Radios and Currency
Exchange Persist, as France Grandstands
UN's Currency Transactions with Myanmar Regime
Questioned, UNDP's Two Week Stonewall
UN Human
Rights Post Will Be Awarded Before Any Briefing of
GA, Kerim Claims Input
Zim Sanctions Draft Adds Two Names, Drops HIV
/ AIDS Issue, Thursday Vote?
Anglo-American
Mining's Zim Deal Questioned,
Global Compact "Should Pay Attention," UNICEF Demos
Russia Brings South Ossetia to
UN, Calls EULEX in Kosovo "Deplorable," Serbs Aggrieved
On
Zimbabwe Resolution,
All Eyes Turn to Russia and
G-8, France's Stance Questioned
On Gold-Trading UN Peacekeepers, Zero Tolerance is
Null and Void, Lute as Security Chief?
At UN,
Delay on Zimbabwe Resolution, Trading Luxury
for Veto, Putting Myanmar Off
Child
Soldiers
Recruited in Chad Still Held in
Sudan, ICC's Lubanga Case Questioned
Lockheed's UN Darfur Contract Will Not Be Extended
But Divided Up Due to Risk, Malcorra Says
Zimbabwe Connections of UN Global
Compact Leader Questioned Alongside Delistings
UNseen Fireworks, U.S. Holds Out for Minor Change
to ECOSOC Text on Climate Change
At UN, of Dressed Dogs and
Ban's Beef, Nigeria
Reviewed under CEDAW, Gambari's Delta Days
Rwandans To Pullout of Darfur If Karenzi is
Replaced, Agwai's Praise of Sharon Draws Ire
Zimbabwe Resolution Unveiled, with Name Games
and Notice of Sanctions, Perhaps No Veto
On Darfur, While U.S. Lobbies for Lockheed, Sudan Says
No, UK On ICC Moves (updated
July 4, 2008)
At UN, Untouchable Fashion Show Livens
ECOSOC, China Chides NGOs about Darfur
Iran Calls U.S. Elections Propaganda, Cites U.S.
Support for Terror Groups, U.S. Stay Mum
In UN Council, Zimbabwe Added to Vietnam
President's Agenda, Myanmar Still in Limbo
UNDP Whitewashing Whistleblower's Claims in Somalia, Resists
Backpay and Ethics Office
At UN, Peacekeeping and Food Snafus Kept
Out of France's EU Celebration
At UN, Rapporteur Alston Admits Drone
Silence from US, Silent on UN, Calls Methods of Killing a Catch-22
UN's Concern About Investors Kept
Algeria Threat Level Low Before the Bombing
As UN Contractor Skanska Hits Pipe, Methane Gas
Clears Printing Plant, Landfill Blamed
As UN TV
Staffing Contract Talks Stall, Vendor's Finances Shaky, Scabs In the
Wings
As Thailand Forcibly Returns One Thousand Hmong to
Laos, UN Actions Questioned
UNDP To Pay Whistleblower 14 Months Back Pay for
Lack of Due Process, Oversight Must Increase
Let Zimbabwe's Cricket Players Travel, UN's Advisor
Lemke Says, Croatia Zim Role Questioned
As Ban Heads
to Asia, UN Labor
Strife Heats Up, Safety in Shambles, UNDP Runs Wild
On Genocide,
UN Cites Immunity to Srebrenica Claims, Lack of Jurisdiction Over
Peacekeepers
UN's Drug Czar Lambastes
Taliban and FARC, Calls Myanmar Problematic, Dodges |
