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Ban Ki-moon Use of UN's Sachs, Spox Tells
ICP Will Look Into, What Of Kim Won-soo?
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 9 – Ban Ki-moon left
the UN on January 1 and
tellingly his first move was
to take legal action against
the press. Before he left, he
named his own son in law Siddarth
Chatterjee to the top UN
top in Kenya.
And after
leaving, he openly enlisted a
person still in the UN job
he'd given him, Jeffrey
Sachs, to campaign for
South Korea's presidency with
him.
Inner City Press
on January 9 asked Ban's holdover
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
about Sachs' comments and
Dujarric said, as he so often
does without coming back with
anything, that he will look
into it.
This while media
reports link
“full time” UN official Kim
Won-soo to Ban's wannabe
campaign.
Ban
Ki-moon has used and abused
the UN, not only the General
Assembly resolution he is
ignoring by running, but by
using public taxpayers' money
to further his own ambition.
In his final year
Ban evicted Inner City Press
from the UN, where still under
his successor it remains
restricted to minders to cover
events on the UN's second
floor.
Back in
2009, when Inner City Press
reported on Ban's nepotism in
connection with a promotion of
Ban's son in law, an
invitation to lunch came from
South Korea's Mission to the
UN.
Then deputy
ambassador Kim Bong-hyun used
the lunch to berate Inner City
Press on how to cover (and not
cover) Ban. (The article, and
his full reply, are here).
Now he's listed
on Ban's campaign team, along
with former Ambassadors Kim
Sook and Oh Joon, and still UN
employee Kim Won-soo.
Sachs,
Ban and his fan club, UN Censorship Alliance, UN
Photo
In
early January, Inner City
Press asked Kim Won-soo
directly, when will you be
leaving the UN? He refused to
answer, backing away smiling.
But it is no joke, to take
public funds while reportedly
on the campaign team of a
political candidate. We'll
have more on this.
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