At
UN,
5 Year Rule
Has Haysom
Offered Afghan
Deputy Post,
Kane Resists
Lebanon
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 4 --
The "five year
rule"
propounded by
UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon, under
which high
official
should serve
no more than
five years in
a particular
post, is
causing a game
of
musical
chairs.
Senior
adviser
Nicholas
Haysom, for
example, is
said by Inner
City Press'
multiple
sources to
have been
offered the
Deputy envoy
post at the UN
Mission
in
Afghanistan,
UNAMA. He had
previously
been in
contention but
not
chosen for the
top envoy post
for the UN in
Lebanon.
Haysom is an
able diplomat
and humanist,
having worked
alongside no
less than
Nelson
Mandela. He
showed passion
for the
killing of
tens of
thousands of
civilians in
Sri Lanka,
rare among
Team Ban. Some
feel that
Ban's UN has
wasted his
talents and
now provided
too low an
exit from New
York. "But
that's Ban,"
as a longer
time UN hand
put it to
Inner City
Press.
The
Lebanon post,
the sources go
on to say, is
being offered
to Angela Kane
of Germany,
who is said
not to want
the post.
Germany is
said to want
to keep a USG
post, and Kane
wants to stay
in New York,
and
one idea is to
give her the
Disarmament
post that is
being vacated
(also by
application of
the five year
rule.)
(c) UN Photo
Haysom and Bob Orr
- & when
will the 5
year rule
apply to him?
The
idea is that
if
the US keeps
the Department
of Political
Affairs, which
used to
belong to the
UK, the UK may
now get the Chief of
Staff or Chef
de
Cabinet
post which
Vijay Nambiar
is slated to
give up,
leading the UK
to have to
sacrifice
Baroness
Valerie Amos
at the Office
for the
Coordination
of
Humanitarian
Affairs. And
who will get
that? Watch
this site.
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