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To
Replace Navi
Pillay,
Ramos-Horta UBrain,
Darusman,
South Asia?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, June
4 -- On replacing
Navi Pillay as
UN High
Commissioner
on Human
Rights, Inner
City Press on May 9
asked the UN about
one of the
candidates,
Jose
Ramos-Horta,
moonlighting
for UBrain.tv
while serving
as UN enovy in
Guinea
Bissau.
The UN has yet
to answer.
Other names in
circulation
include Indonesia's
Marzuki
Darusman, who
has worked on
Sri Lanka
and more
recently North
Korea, and
candidates
from Pakistan
and Afghanistan.
Current UN
Human Rights
official in
New York Ivan
Simonovic,
now working
on a new
report on
Ukraine
including the
Odessa
killings
by June 17,
seems star-crossed
by geography:
it's Asia's
turn.
But it's
supposed to be
Eastern Europe's
turn for the
next Secretary
General, and
that is not
stopping Helen
Clark and
others for
campaigning
for it, click
here for that.
Back
on May 9,
Inner City
Press asked:
Inner
City Press:
I'd like to
ask about
Guinea-Bissau
and then some
press freedom
questions...
can you
confirm that
Jose Ramos
Horta is
leaving? It's
said that he’s
leaving to go
work at
UBrainTV based
in Tokyo and
quote, “he has
been an
adviser for
UbrainTV for
more than a
year.” I
wanted to
know, is it
permissible to
be a full-time
SRSG and also
be an adviser
to a
for-profit
company? Was
this cleared
by the ethics
office?
Deputy
Spokesman
Farhan Haq: I
don’t have any
information
about any
other business
that Mr. Ramos
Horta may or
may not have,
so I don’t
have any
comment on
that.
Certainly, he
continues with
his work right
now though.
Since that May
9 exchange
there has been
no information
from the UN
Spokesperson's
office. Inner
City Press
held off on
this report,
out of respect
for
Ramos-Horta.
But doesn't
the UN have to
answer? Watch
this site.
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