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Ban's
Lawyer Ensured
Corruption
Task Force
Pointed
Elsewhere,
Spox Defends
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, March
30 -- The UN's
unwillingness
to address the
obvious
corruption of
South South
News, to which
it has given
awards and Ban
Ki-moon photo
ops via its UN
Correspondents
Association,
and whose Ng
Lap Seng
bought
documents from
Ban's
Secretariat,
became even
more clear on
March 29 --
though not in
the UN's
favored media.
Ban's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric read
out a
statement that
Ban's “Task
Force” report
on corruption
had been
circulated,
limited to
structural
flaws in the
Office of the
President of
the General
Assembly.
Inner
City Press, facing
eviction from
the UN for
seeking to
cover an event
by one of Ng's
and South
South News'
fundees, UNCA,
in the UN
Press Briefing
Room,
immediately
asked why Ban
wasn't
studying
corruption in
his own
Secretariat. Video here.
Part of the
answer, not
given by
Dujarric on
March 29 or
admitted by
him on March
30 when Inner
City Press
asked, was
that Ban's
personal
lawyer Miguel
de Serpa
Soares was on
the "Task
Force," on eof
only three
members. On
March 30,
Inner City
Press asked
Dujarric about
this, UN
transcript
here:
Inner City
Press: I
hadn't seen
when you were
reading out
the task force
report on UN
PGA
office.
And upon
seeing it, I
noticed one of
the three
members is
also Miguel de
Serpa Soares,
who is… is my
understanding,
as well as
Under-Secretary-General
of Legal
Affairs, also
the counsel to
Secretary-General
Ban
Ki-moon.
So, I wanted
to know,
given, even
though the way
it's been
structured is
this was only
a look at the
PGA's office,
given… when
you read the
criminal
complaint,
there are
number of
references to
the
Secretariat.
How would you
respond to
those who say,
as Ban
Ki-moon's
lawyer, Mr.
Serpa Soares
has a legal,
ethical duty
not to find
anything wrong
by Ban
Ki-moon?
He's literally
required.
It would be
unethical for
him to say, I
have found
wrongdoing
with the
Secretariat.
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