For
UN
Re-Shuffle,
Malcorra DSG,
Pascoe
Lateral, Of
Lebanon Envoy,
Nambiar To Go
& a Khare
Solution?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 25 --
After talk at
the UN of a
"big bang"
in Ban
Ki-moon's
Secretariat, a
re-organization
for his second
and
final term as
Secretary
General
started
January 1, now
the shakeup is
described by
sources as
small, more of
a
re-shuffling.
For
example, the
sources
predict,
current Under
Secretary
General for
Field Support
Susana
Malcorra is
tapped to move
up to Ban's
Deputy spot,
maintaining
the position
for a woman
from the
developing
world,
albeit no
longer an
African.
With
Lynn Pascoe
slated to
leave the
Department of
Political
Affairs by
February or at
latest April,
the US is
known to have
made a play to
keep the DPA
post.
Strangely
there is talk
of moving
Pascoe over to
the Chief of
Staff (or
"Chef de
Cabinet") post
held
throughout
Ban's
first term by
Vijay Nambiar.
One source
said "Pascoe
wouldn't
be viewed as a
second high
level
American,
since he
wasn't
appointed
under Obama."
Nambiar
awaited
departure
would, of
course, leave
India down a
major post.
While not
suggested by
the Ban
administration
sources,
moving Indian
Atul Khare
from his
current "made
up" post of
Change
Management to
replace
Malcorra as
USG of DFS
might be an
elegant way to
solve that
problem.
But a
diplomatic
source noted
that Pakistan,
too,
"deserves" a
high post,
just as it is
taking a seat
on the
Security
Council
overlapping in
2012 with
India.
Other
USGs are
being told to
look for jobs
in the field.
Source say
that USG for
Management
Angela Kane
was encouraged
to apply to
field jobs,
for
example the
Lebanon post
vacated by
Michael
Williams, with
Nicholas
Hayson now
thought to
wait longer
into the
reshuffle. But
Kim
Won-soo, who
might leave,
is said to be
encouraging
Y.J. Choi, the
campaign
manager who
engineered
Ban's first
term, to seek
the Lebanon
job.
(c) UN Photo
Ban & team
in first term,
re-shuffle not
yet shown
Several
sources
marveled at
how Ban has
thus far
ignored
requests not
only from the
African Group
but also G-77
to fill the
Special
Adviser on
Africa
post.
Inside
the
Department of
Political
Affairs,
Pascoe is said
to be finding
the
safest places
possible for
this proteges,
while his
Department is
hard-lobbied
by at the
middle level
by the Turkish
Mission,
"muscularly,"
a DPA staffer
told Inner
City Press
disapprovingly.
And so it goes
at the UN.
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