Nikki
Haley Credentials UN Jan 27, Spox Won't Answer
ICP on Paying Abusive Peacekeepers
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 26 – Nine days after a
confirmation hearing in which
she called for accountability
at the UN, including for
peacekeepers' abuses, Nikki
Haley on January 27 at 9:30 am
is set to "present her
credentials" to UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres.
(Haley is
also set to speak at 9 am in
the UN lobby; Inner City Press
will Periscope
both.)
On January
26, Inner City Press asked Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
about a reform Haley mentioned
three times during her
confirmation here. Video
here. UN
transcript here:
Inner City Press:
you keep saying that this
"Auditing and reducing US
funding of international
organizations" is not yet
signed, but the now confirmed
US Ambassador to the UN, three
times in her confirmation
hearing, said that the UN
should not pay
troop-contributing countries
whose peacekeepers are found
to have abused. So
I wanted to know, what's the
threshold currently of the
number of OIOS (Office of
Internal Oversight Services) ,
certified or probable cause
findings that would trigger a
cutting off of funding or the
non-use in the future of a
troop-contributing country,
given that 25
obviously doesn't make it?
Spokesman: Obviously,
these issues are being taken
very seriously and are
examined on a case-by-case
basis.
Inner City Press: One of
the proposals that's been made
even prior to the next year's
budget is simply the possible
veto or threat of veto of the
renewing of mandates of
peacekeeping missions.
What I wanted to know is, how
does that work? I've
seen the Georgia mission
once was disbanded due to a
naming issue. But are
there contingency plans in
place if the mandate for a
functioning,
several-thousand-troop
peacekeeping mission comes up
and it's not extended?
What happens? How does
it keep getting paid?
Spokesman: Well, I… the…
you know, we've had missions
draw down. It happen… if
I'm not mistaken, I think a…
one of the UN's previous
missions in Haiti at some
point was vetoed by a
permanent member of the
Security Council. These
things are extremely
unfortunate, but we have to
abide by the rulings of the
Security Council.
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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