Nikki
Haley Confirmed, Cited UN's
Checkered History, See Ladsous
on Rapes, Gallach Censors
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 24 – Six days after a
confirmation hearing in which
she called for accountability
at the UN, including for
peacekeepers' abuses, Nikki
Haley on January 24 was
confirmed to replace Samantha
Power as US Ambassador to the
UN.
This came
after at least two business days
of no
photos replacing those
of President Barack Obama and
Vice President Joe Biden at
the US Mission to the UN.
On January
24, Inner City Press asked
former UN official, now Swedish
foreign minister Margot
Wallstrom about Haley's call
to defund countries whose
peacekeepers abuse. Tweeted
video here. There are
reforms needed at the UN.
Back on
January 18 before Haley spoke
as nominee for US Ambassador
to the UN, Senator Bob Corker
said he sometimes wondered if
just-left Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon had a pulse.
In fact,
Ban was quite active in
helping his own relatives at
the UN, promoting his son in
law to the top UN job in
Kenya, his brother mining in
Myanmar with a "UN
delegation," indicted nephew
using Ban's name to sell real
estate.
When Haley
began, she said the UN has a
"checkered history." That's
being diplomatic. Consider a
head of Peacekeeping who has
linked rapes to R&R, video
here.
Consider a
head of the UN "Department of
Public Information" who did no
due diligence over indicted UN
briber Ng Lap Seng - then
evicted and still restricts
the Press which asked here
about it. Audit
here, Para 37-40, 20b; NYT
here.
In
response to questions, Haley
praised the UN peacekeeping
mission in Sierra Leone,
questioned the one in South
Sudan and that country's
government. She noted that
countries make money off their
peacekeepers. The case in
point, we note, is Burundi, here.
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