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On
Nepal,
Allegations
onUNDP Called
Old, Qatar's
Abuse Not
Covered
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, May
26 -- Nepal
post-earthquake
reconstruction
was the topic
when Magdy
Martínez-Solimán
of UNDP held a
press
conference at
the UN on May
26. Inner City
Press asked
him about a
critique of
UNDP's use of
funds,
including that
UNDP had "poor
financial
controls,
weaknesses in
payment
processes and
misreporting
and recording
of payments.”
Video
here.
Martínez-Solimán
said these
were old
problems --
2013 -- and
that things
are better
now. We've
heard that
from UNDP on
its Law and
Order Trust
Fund for
Afghanistan,
and will take
a closer look
here.
Inner
City Press
also asked
Martínez-Solimán
to comment on
Qatar not
allowing
Nepali workers
to go home for
funeral.
Martínez-Solimán
said he was
unaware of
that, adding
that he'd been
on full plane
on a route
that Nepalis
would have
been taking.
Martínez-Solimán
added that the
UN has asked
Qatar to train
Nepalis in
engineering,
to be able to
certify which
homes still
standing are
safe to return
to. He said
there has been
no response.
But a wire
service
present which
had not asked
the Qatar
mistreatment
of workers
question but
followed up
looking for
good news
about Qatar
giving train,
apparently
didn't report
the answer
when it was
that Qatar
had, in fact,
not helped
Nepal at all.
And when the
UN News Center
did its
version,
linked to by
the
Spokesperson,
it did not
include either
question and
answer, on
spending flaws
or UN-favored
Qatar. And so
it goes.
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