From
UN,
South Koreans
Choi &
Kang To Go,
Eyes on DGACM,
Opaque
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 23, updated
-- Citing the
five year
mobility rule
of UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon, Ban's
fellow South
Korea Choi
Soon-hong is
set to leave
his Chief
Information
Technology
Officer
post at the
UN. They are
taking resumes
for his
replacement
until
September 17.
Sources tell
Inner City
Press Choi
asked for a
six
month
extension but
was offered
only three; he
has decided to
leave. Inner
City Press
asked about
this at
Thursday's
noon briefing.
Meanwhile
in
Geneva another
native of
South Korea,
deputy High
Commission for
Human Rights
Kyung-wha
Kang, is also
set to go. On
this, resumes
are being
accepted until
October 15.
And
so insiders
tell Inner
City Press,
there must be
a South Korea
Under
Secretary
General in the
works, since
two Assistant
Secretaries
General are
leaving.
There
is only one
high profile
USG post left
at UN
Headquarters,
the
Department of
General
Assembly and
Conference
Management
post
currently held
by a Belgian
"acting"
director Jean-Jacques
Graisse
who, as first
reported
by Inner City
Press, was the
one who
brought Ban's
current
chief of staff
Susana
Malcorra into
the World Food
Program.
Graisse's UN
"Biographical
Note"
states that
"Mr. Graisse’s
most recent
position was
as Senior
Deputy
Executive
Director
responsible
for the World
Food Program’s
(WFP)
multibillion-dollar
emergency,
development
and logistics
operations
around the
world."
Unstated
but
significant is
that after
Graisse took
over in
January 2004
as "Senior
Deputy
Executive
Director
(Operations
Department),"
in July 2004
he brought
into WFP as
Deputy
Executive
Director
(Administration)
Susana
Malcorra.
He was named
as "acting"
head of DGACM
rather than
the position
going on an
interim basis
to Franz
Baumann. Other
ascribed this
to staff
complaints
against
Baumann and
austerity;
others to the
fact that
Baumann is a
candidate for
this USG post.
But given
recent moves,
the
sources say,
watch for a
South Korean
native to get
this post,
combined with
the Protocol
post, a triple
play or even
clean sweep.
Another asked,
perhaps
connected, all
this to
upgrade Kim
Won-soo to
USG?
For
DGACM, resumes
are accepted
through
September 10.
Inner
City Press
weeks ago
asked the UN
to state if
Malcorra
recused
herself from
the process by
which Graise
was put in at
DGACM. So far,
no answer.
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