At
UN, Jane Holl
Lute Vies with
Wolff for DPA,
Nambiar
Down to
Myanmar?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 10 --
UN Department
of Political
Affairs chief
Lynn
Pascoe was
identified as
a lame duck by
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
chief of staff
Vijay
Nambiar on
December 1,
listed
as leaving in
the first half
of 2012.
Inner
City Press
has
so far
reported one
of the
American names
put forward to
replace
Pascoe: Alejandro
Wolff.
It was said at
the time that
another name
is in the mix.
And now Inner
City Press
reports it: Jane
Holl Lute.
She
served in UN
peacekeeping,including
pushing a no
bid contract
in Darfur for
a
subsidiary
American
military
contractor
Lockheed
Martin.
She became
number two in
the Obama
administration's
"Department of
Homeland
Security"
bureaucracy;
she's now
named along
with Wolff and
perhaps one
other
as the US
short list to
replace
Pascoe.
(c) UN Photo
Ban Ki-moon
& Jane
Holl Lute as
DHS - now to
DPA?
Her
husband Doug
Lute has
served as the
Obama
administration's
"czar" on
Afghanistan
and Iraq, it
might be
noted.
The UN's continued
inability to
assure that
peacekeepers,
even though
caught on
video as in
Haiti abusing
those they are
sent to
protect,
can be
effectively
prosecuted may
reflect badly
on Jane Holl
Lute's many
claims to have
solvied this
issue.
While
Nambiar
declined to
answer Inner
City Press as
to whether
Ban's five
years
and you're out
rule applies
to him,
knowledgeable
sources say
that
Nambiar has
fought to stay
on as an Under
Secretary
General for
twelve more
months.
Several
Security
Council
members,
including then
member Mexico
and permanent
member
the United
Kingdom told
Inner City
Press they'd
like to see a
full
time envoy to
Myanmar, which
was read as
"someone other
than
Nambiar." Now
it's slated to
become
Nambiar's job
on a full time
basis, for a
year.
That
would mean
Nambiar would
not stay on as
chief of
staff. For
that, there is
another name
-- watch this
site.
Footnote:
Pascoe was
sent under
Bush, so
appointing
Jane Holl
Lute, who has
now served
under Obama,
would put
Obama's mark
closer to Ban
Ki-moon.
In other Obama
adminstration
chutes and
ladders,
little noticed
in yesterday's
handover of
the White
House chief of
staff role
from Daley to
Lew was that
it represents
a shift from a
former
official of JP
Morgan Chase
to one of ...
Citigroup. Can
you say Occupy
Wall Street,
which heads to
Washington on
January 17?
Watch this
site.
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