At
UN, Ameerah
Haq to Leave,
Holl Lute
& Pollard
in Hunt,
Ladsous Redux
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS, April
14 -- The head
of the UN
Department of
Field Service
Ameerah Haq
will leave
this
Peacekeeping
job in
October, Inner
City
Press is
informed by
well-placed
sources.
Among
the candidates
to take over
the position,
ostensibly
co-equal with
Herve Ladsous,
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row atop the
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations,
include
American Jane
Holl Lute and
the
current head
of the UN
Office of
Human
Resources
Management,
Catherine
Pollard.
Given
that the top
contributors
of
peacekeeping
troops to the
UN are from
South Asia --
India,
Pakistan,
Nepal and
Ameerah Haq's
native
Bangladesh --
it would look
strange to
have DFS
headed by an
American
while DPKO
remains owned
by France.
Several UN
sources muses
this
would be a
perfect time
for Ladsous to
leave. "Better
him than
Haq," as one
source put it.
But
the alternate
theory has
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
throwing
geographical
and
ideological
balance to the
wind in UN
Peacekeeping.
In this
theory, the US
would have to
give up the
Department of
Safety
& Security
-- "he's only
an Acting
USG," the
proponent
pointed out --
so as to not
have too too
many American
Under
Secretaries
General.
The shame
would be,
Kevin Kennedy
is one of the
better
and more
accessible
USGs, by
contrast to
Ladsous who refuses Press
questions
about rapes
and UN
Peacekeeping
from the Congo
to Mali,
and
about the Hutu FDLR, click here for last week's
video.
It
was back in
October 2013
that Inner
City Press
reported that
Ladsous
was trying to
get Haq out,
to assert more
control. On
October 7,
2013
Inner City
Press reported,
"While an
earlier Ban
Ki-moon reform
involved
splitting
Peacekeeping
into two
separate
components,
DPKO
and DFS, now
Ladsous wants
to dominate
both of them,
by pushing Haq
out of DFS and
installing a
person of his
own choosing.
More on that
in a future
story." This,
is that story.
And there will
be more.
Watch this
site.
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