Amid
Cuts, UNDP's Clark Leaving April
19, France's Royal, UK Miliband
- Or an American?
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 25 – With the UN
system facing 40% budget cuts
from the US, on January 25 UN
Development Program chief
Helen Clark confirmed she will
leave on April 19.
While
Inner City Press first
reported the interest of
France's Segolene Royal in
replacing Clark, and the UK's
David Miliband has also been
mentioned, other UN sources
have told Inner City Press
this post, "like UNICEF and
WFP, may go to an American."
We'll see.
Of the
candidates to replace the
increasingly discredited Ban
Ki-moon as UN Secretary
General, Clark was the most
active on social media.
She also, as
Inner City Press exposed,
had UNDP go after a UNDP
staff who dared tweet
criticism of her.
She was once
getting a tobacco award but
when exposed
by Inner City Press,
turned it down. There's more
to be said but the news of the
day is the impending budget
cuts.
And why WAS
France minister for
development meeting
with and lobbying
Antonio Guterres on January
25? We'll have more on this.
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