On
Next SG, ICP
Asks Jeremic
of
Whistleblowers
& Funding,
Clark of UNDP
Audit
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, April
14 -- How
should the
next UN
Secretary
General be
selected, to
improve the
Organization?
First,
how low has
the UN fallen,
in terms of
corruption,
not stopping
rapes, and
retaliating
against the
Press that
asks the
questions? On
April 13,
Inner City
Press asked
candidate
Vesna Pusic
what she would
do to avoid
corruption;
she said keep
an eye on
everything
coming in and
going out, and
keep the rules
simple.
Inner
City Press
also asked
Danilo Turk if
journalists in
the UN should
have due
process
rights, which
they do not
now (he said
yes) and about
the Haiti
cholera case.
He said he
thought Ban
Ki-moon is
working behind
the scene on
compensating
the victims.
But when Inner
City Press
asked, Ban's
spokesman only
spoke about
trying to
improve
sanitation
going forward.
On April 14,
Inner City
Press asked
Vuk Jeremic
what he would
do to clean up
the ongoing
corruption
shown in the
John Ashe / Ng
Lap Seng case
and the audit
Inner City
Press
exclusively
put online,
here.
Jeremic
replied he
would require
UN officials
to make public
financial
disclosure
(unlike Ban
Ki-moon),
would
strengthen
OIOS (whose Ng
Lap Seng audit
lets Ban off
the hook) and
protect
whistleblowers.
Inner City
Press asked
Jeremic, as it
has asked the
other
candidates, to
disclosure his
campaign's
funding.
Jeremic said
he won't take
money from
countries,
including
Serbia which
nominated him;
he'll
"fundraise"
and disclose
it.
(Luksic told
Inner City
Press he will
disclosure;
Danilo Turk
disclosed in a
tweet his
40,000 Euro
limit).
Inner City
Press ran to
the Helen
Clark stakeout
but wasn't
called on for
a question (it
would have
asked about
funding and
how much time
off from UNDP
for Clark she
considers
appropriate.)
But at the
end, Inner
City Press
asked audibly,
"When will the
UNDP
South-South
audit be
released?"
Clark replied,
Mr Lee, it
will come out
in mid-April.
Inner City
Press said
thank. It is
already April
14, but the
first round of
"informal
dialogues" is
ending with
FYROM's Kerim.
Watch this
site.
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