At
UN
on Ban's Shake
Up, Short
Lists Unclear,
Applies to DSG
& Nambiar?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 1 --
When UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
unveiled
his management
shakeup on
Thursday, it
was said that
"the five
year rule will
be applied
across the
board."
But when Inner
City
Press asked if
it applied to
chief of staff
Vijay Nambiar,
who read
out Ban's
announcement,
the question
was not
answered. Video
here.
In
fact, Nambiar
refused to
answer any
questions.
When he
finished his
reading, with
its references
to
transparency,
Inner City
Press asked
him if short
lists of
candidates
will be made
public.
Nambiar
replied that
he had
been told not
to answer
questions.
Ban's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo del
Buey minutes
later declined
to answer
Inner
City Press'
question of
whether the
five year rule
-- not staying
in
a senior post
for more then
five years, at
least the same
post --
applied to
Ban's five
year deputy
secretary
general, Asha
Rose
Migiro. Inner
City Press is
informed
that Ms.
Migiro has
been
lobbying for a
second term.
What will Ban
do?
The
night before
Nambiar's
unscheduled
appearance to
read a
statement but
take no
questions,
Inner City
Press was
informed by
sources that
the head of
the Department
of Public
Information
Kiyotaka
Akasaka would
be
leaving.
Since his is
one of the few
high posts for
Japan in the
UN
system, and
Japan recently
lost the UN
Controller
spot, would a
Japanese
replacement at
DPI be enough?
It
has been
suggested that
Japan might
want the
Department of
Management.
But the
post filled by
Angela Kane
was not on
Nambiar's list
(even as Inner
City Press is told by
sources that
Kane is being
encourage to
apply
for the empty
Lebanon /
Resolution
1701 spot,
along with Ban
ally
Y.J. Choi and
Spain's former
foreign
minister).
Also
leaving,
according to
Wednesday's
announcement,
is the head of
DGACM, the
Egyptian
Shaban Shaban,
who lost a
major UN
internal
justice case.
The Chinese
head of DESA
is on the
list, but
seems to be
given an
extension for
Rio + 20.
That the
affable Lynn
Pascoe is done
at head of the
Department of
Political
Affairs has
been widely
known;
while the UK had
an interest,
it looks to
stay in US
hands.
To
say that the
Economic
Commission on
Europe is open
is old news:
chief Jan
Kubis
has already
been
reassigned to
the UN Mission
in Afghanistan.
Maybe
that's the
model: just
move people
around.
(c) UN Photo
Pascoe (out),
Ban (center),
Nambiar - in
or out? No
answers
Mr
Duarte is
ready
to retire from
Disarmament;
the Special
Adviser on
Africa post,
listed by
Nambiar, has
been sitting
empty, or
filled by a
moonlighter
who, Inner
City Press is
multiply
informed, is
slated to
takeover the
Economic
Commission on
Africa from
Mr. Janneh --
who is set to
meet
with DSG
Migiro at 3 pm
on Thursday.
To break the
news, or to
commiserate?
Watch this
site.
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