With
Prodi Listed
as Candidate,
ICP Asks UN If
He Can Stay as
Sahel Envoy
UNITED
NATIONS, April
18 -- Can a
person be a
full time UN
official and
be
running for
office in his
or her own
country?
On
Thursday Inner
City Press
asked UN
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
about the
case of Romano
Prodi. He is
the full time
UN envoy on
the Sahel.
But
not only was
he listed in
the online
primary of
Beppe Grillo’s
Five
Star Movement
- now he is
described as
well
positioned to
run, even
beyond that.
So
can he remain
as the UN's
Sahel envoy?
(There is
another
exclusive
Inner City
Press published
on April 3
that is not
unrelated to
this -
click here.)
Already
the
UN has allowed
Tony Blair to
collect, for
example $11
million a
year from
Kazakhstan --
Inner City
Press asked,
and the UN
said to
“ask Tony
Blair's
office.” It's
not for Tony
to rule if he
has a
conflict of
interest.
Likewise
Tuesday
night at the
UN, Terje
Roed-Larsen
said openly
that he works
both for the
UN Secretariat
and for the
International
Peace
Institute, an
NGO now
opening an
office in
Bahrain. For
whom was
Roed-Larsen
traveling to
Bahrain, with
his UN-funded
staffer?
But
running for
office must be
treated more
seriously. Or
not? Watch
this
site.
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