UN
Controller
Job Slated for
American
Bartsiotas,
ICP Learns,
IAEA &
Wikileaks
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 28 --
Trying to
follow the
money at the
UN is not
easy, often
intentionally
so. Press
questions
for example
about
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
travel, posed
to the head of
the
Department of
Management
Yukio Takasu
were answered
with reference
to
unnamed
Trust Funds
which report
on a two year
lag. A
follow up
question to
Ban's Office
of the
Spokesperson did not garner
any
better
response.
The
Assistant
Secretary
General
position of UN
Controller,
then, under
the
supervision of
former
Japanese
Ambassador to
the UN Takasu
is not
unimportant.
Back in May
2014
then-Controller
Maria Eugenia
Casar was
picked to
become
Associate
Administrator
of the United
Nations
Development
Program.
Now
Inner City
Press is
exclusively
informed by
well-placed
sources that
a new
Controller has
been picked
but not yet
announced.
Amid
complaints by
some
delegations
that the US
already has
too many top
positions,
from the
Department of
Political
Affairs of
Jeffrey
Feltman to Ebola
logistics czar
Tony Banbury
and Capital
Master Plan
master-builder
Michael
Adlerstein,
the sources
tell Inner
City Press
the new UN
Controller
will be joint
US - Uruguay
citizen Bettina
Bartsiotas.
Bettina
Bartsiotas,
Inner City
Press'
research
finds, is an
active
American,
for example
making $1000
in public
campaign
contributions
and even
showing up in
a classified
US cable
obtained and
released by
Wikileaks,
regarding the
International
Atomic Energy
Agency:
“This
position
should be
pursued
aggressively
when it opens
up in the
future. Dual
Uruguay/U.S.
national
Bettina
Bartsiotas,
currently a
Section Head
in this
office, has a
good
relationship
with the
Mission
and may seek
this position
in the
future.”
So
the US was
pushing
Bartsiotas for
a financial
position in
the IAEA
then, and
presumably
now, for the
UN Controller
position.
While the
UN refuses to
make public
its “short
lists” for
such
recruitments,
the sources
exclusively
tell Inner
City Press of
the
current UN
Treasurer,
from Mexico,
as well as a
Belgian
official
being
interviewed.
But, they say,
“American
Bettina
Bartsiotas
came
out on top.”
As
Inner City
Press
previously
reported back
in September,
another
American pick
by Ban
Ki-moon, Carol
Boykin for the
investment
chief
in the UN
pension fund,
drew
significant
push-back due
to Boykin's
past record
and litigation
in Maryland.
And this one?
Then, the new
Free
UN Coalition
for Access renewed
the press
for a Freedom
of Information
Act at the UN.
Will this push
things closer?
Watch this
site.
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