As
Ban's
UN Seeks
Rescue from
Past Kofi,
DSG, Eliasson,
Stelzer's
Extended
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 6 -- The
five year rule
announced by
UN Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon was
ostensibly
intended to
encourage new
blood in the
UN, new
thinking, a
new era.
But not only
are insiders
from Ban's
first term
being shuffled
around rather
than leaving,
for example Kim Won-soo
to
Change
Management
and Bob Orr to
a created
corporate
position,
noticeably
officials from
before Ban's
time are
coming back.
Ban's
predecessor
Kofi Annan, of
course, has
been thrust
back as joint
Arab League -
UN
envoy to
Syria. Annan
brought with
him to New
York last week
Lamine
Cisse, a
longtime UN
insider.
Others speak
of former, and
disgraced
for nepotism,
UN official
Allan Doss as
working with
Annan.
Ban
is bringing
back former
official and
President of
the General
Assembly Jan
Eliasson as
his deputy, at
71 years of
age. Ban
brought back
Annan's
former Deputy
Secretary
General Louise
Frechette to
chair his
Senior
Advisory Group
on
Peacekeeping
Operations.
Tellingly,
when
Frechette took
the step of
barring the
participation
in the SAG of
Sri Lankan
General
Shavendra
Silva, whose
58th Division
is depicted
in Ban's own
Panel of
Experts report
as engaged in
war crimes, Ban
and his
spokespeople
refused to
support
Frechette,
repeating the
mantra that it
is "up to
member
states."
At
Tuesday's
one-on-one
noon briefing,
Inner City
Press asked
Ban's deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey:
Inner
City
Press: in
light of this
five year rule
enunciated by
the
Secretary-General,
I have been
told that
Thomas Stelzer
was on Monday
given a one
year extension
and just that,
that’s just a
factual
question, I
would like to
know if that
is the case,
and if so, how
does it relate
to the five
year rule?
Deputy
Spokesperson
del Buey:
Well, I’ll
have to check
into that,
Matthew, I
don’t have
anything on
Mr. Stelzer.
Inner
City
Press: If you
get an answer
you can e-mail
it to me
rather than
insert it, it
would be…
Deputy
Spokesperson:
Thank you,
sir, have a
good
afternoon.
And
as requested,
and
appreciated,
the
Spokesperson's
office emailed
this at 4 pm:
Subject:
Your
question at
the Noon
Briefing
From: UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not
Reply @un.org
Date: Tue, Mar
6, 2012 at
4:06 PM
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
Mr.
Stelzer's
contract was
extended until
March 2013.
This extension
will
represent his
5th year as
Assistant
Secretary-General.
It's
appreciated.
What about the
other
Assistant
Secretaries
General? Watch
this site.
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