As
Blair Takes
Work in S.
Sudan,
Alongside Gaza
&
JPMorgan,
Conflicts?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
July 16 --
After Tony
Blair
announced he
will become an
adviser to
South Sudan,
Inner City
Press asked
United Nations
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
if Blair
checked with
or will
collaborate
with the UN,
which has a
major
peacekeeping
mission in the
new
country.
Previously
when
Blair, who has
a "quasi" UN
post as Middle
East Quartet
envoy on
Palestine,
took a post
with JPMorgan
Chase,
Inner City
Press
asked the UN
about possible
conflicts of
interest,
without
answer.
The
lack
of safeguard
appear to
continue
unabated.
Nesirky on
July 16
would not
answer for the
UN, insteading
telling Inner
City Press to
asked Blair's
office --
where? -- and
adding that
there is no
such
thing as a
"quasi" UN
post.
Really?
What
about
the Global
Education post
Ban Ki-moon
just gave to
Blair
successor as
UK prime
minister
Gordon Brown?
Is that a
full-time
post? Will
Brown file UN
public
financial
disclosure,
which Blair
does not do?
Inner
City
Press prefaced
its question
about Blair by
saying it has
inter-related
questions
about UN
posts, of
which the
Gordon Brown
compensation
was one. But
Nesirky did
not allow any
follow ups,
shifted back
to the other
side of the
briefing room
and announced
that that
would be the
last question.
And
so
we are left
without
answers about
the UN and
conflicts of
interest,
which we will
continue to
pursue. Watch
this site.
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