As UN Checks Toxins in Abidjan, the Dumper Trafigura
Figured in Oil for Food Scandal, Funded by RBS and BNP Paribas
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at
the UN
UNITED NATIONS, September 10 -- While in Ivory
Coast the dumping of toxic chemicals by Trafigura Beheer BV has led to a new
political crisis, it has emerged that the dumper Trafigura figured in the UN -
Iraq Oil for Food scandal, alongside mining operations in Kazakhstan,
derivatives and loans from such mega-banks as Royal Bank of Scotland, ING and
BNP Paribas. The toxins were dealt out in at least nine places around the port
of Abidjan, leaving five dead and over 7000 in need of medical treatment. How
far the liability and accountability will spread is not yet known.
Before the
UN Environment Program sent investigators
to Abidjan, at UN Headquarters
on September 7, Inner City Press asked the spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi
Annan for the UN's position and actions to date on the spill. The
spokesman responded
that
"On this specific issue, the Prime Minister, Charles
Konan Banny, spoke to Mr. Guehenno today, to brief him on the dissolution of the
Government. He told them the decision was made to ensure that all those who
have a hand in what happened in the dump of the toxic waste, take full
responsibility and are removed from Government jobs. We obviously acknowledge
the decision. I think it is always good when people take responsibility for
these sorts of things."
Even cursory research finds the dumper, Trafigura
Beheer BV, listed in various reports on the UN's Oil for Food program. Facts on
File reports that:
"in May 2001,
the Essex tanker, chartered by Dutch oil-trading company Trafigura Beheer BV,
had been topped off with an extra 230,000 barrels after inspection at an
off-shore Iraqi oil platform. Trafigura had purchased the oil in the shipment
from French oil-services company Ibex Energy France. The cargo had been seized
in the Caribbean Sea after the captain alerted U.S. and U.N. authorities. Later,
according to the Journal, Ibex's general manager, Jean Paul Cayre, in an
affidavit filed with Britain's High Court of Justice, had said the two companies
performed the same routine with the Essex in 2000, under Trafigura's direction,
paying Iraq $5.4 million for the extra oil. At Trafigura's direction, Cayre
said, the two companies had shredded records of the deals and replaced them with
false ones."
Documents tie French President Jacques Chirac's
friend Patrick Maugein to the 25 million barrels allocated to Trafigura Beheer
BV, which employed Patrick's brother Philippe as a consultant. Trafigura was
accused of evading taxes on oil imports into Thailand; the International
Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has taken testimony on
Trafigura's involving in the Sudanese oil industry.
Abidjan
before the UN
Public reporting on Trafigura comes even closer
to the current UN. The Financial Times' Claudio Gatti one year ago reported:
"Kojo Annan,
son of Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary-general, received more than Dollars
750,000 from several oil trading companies now under investigation for their
role in the UN's oil-for-food program (OFFP) for Iraq. The funds were dispatched
between 2002 and 2003 to an account Kojo Annan opened under his middle name -
Adeyemo - in a Swiss branch of Coutts bank... In 2003, one company - Trafigura
Beheer BV, a Dutch-based entity founded by traders who formerly worked for the
then fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich - sent $247,500 to Kojo Annan's
account at Coutts... The company found records of the payment in question, but
explained that it was related to a transaction with PPI, the Nigerian company
that employed Mr Annan as a director. 'The request (of payment) was received
from a PPI fax and it was assumed that this was a PPI account.' Mr. Annan's
lawyer said PPI 'conducted business with Trafigura in 2002 and 2003' clarifying
the deals were confined to Nigerian gas oil and petrol. PPI's representative in
Geneva is Michael Wilson, a Ghanaian friend of the Annan family, who has
attracted scrutiny in the oil-for-food investigation. Mr Wilson and Mr Annan
both worked for Cotecna, the Swiss inspection company that in 1998 received a UN
contract under the oil-for-food program ultimately worth $60 million. Between
spring 2002 and spring 2003, Mr Annan's Coutts account received over $200,000."
Control of Coutts lay with Royal Bank of
Scotland. As research into who funds and enables Trafigua continues, earlier
this year Euromoney reported "BNP Paribas, ING and Royal Bank of Scotland's $300
million facility for commodity trading group Trafigura Beheer has closed."
On Friday the UN said it is sending the
UN Environment Program to investigate the toxic dumping in Abidjan. But the
trail is not without self-reference, and leads well beyond the Ivory Coast.
Bigger picture,
Reuters reports that
"countries that report to the Basel Convention, which monitors hazardous waste,
produced around 108 million tonnes of the wastes in 2001, according to U.N.
statistics. Uzbekistan was top with 26 percent of the total." Developing...
* * * *
Also at the UN on Friday, Inner City Press asked
outgoing General Assembly president Jan Eliasson to comment on the propriety of
housing subsidies by governments to UN employees. Mr. Eliasson replied, "I think
it's very important that we have a very good relationship with the UN staff....
I have one more working day, I will be available to the press at 1:30, maybe I
will have picked up more information on this issue by then."
After thanking President Eliasson in advance, Inner
City Press sent his spokeswoman the following summary:
Should UN employees
and officials be allowed to accept free or cut-rate housing from governments
(most often, their countries of nationality)? The Secretariat has acknowledge
that such housing subsidies by government do take place, and has said that they
are okay as long as they are disclosed to the UN, and the value of the housing
is deducted from UN compensation. The issue has continued, and on September 7
and September 8 Stephane Dujarric said he's looking into it to come up with
"language," or an answer, because:
-Staff Regulations
say that UN employees cannot accept gifts or remuneration from governments. (To
that, Mr. Dujarric said housing is neither a gift or remuneration, a position
which, when I conveyed it to Ghana's Ambassador led to the retort, "Give me a
break.")
-Article 100 of the
UN Charter requires loyalty to the UN, not one's nation; and
-The UN Financial
Disclosure form says, in footnote 6, that such housing subsidies are prohibited
unless expressly authorized by the Secretary-General.
As a matter of UN
reform, what does President Eliasson think of the issue? For example, does he
think housing subsidies by government should be more clearly banned, and phased
out?
If not, does he
think that the disclosures of who gets housing subsidies from a government
should be publicly disclosed, so that the person's credibility / possible
conflict of interest could be weighed?
Separately, should
the UN (and GA) adopt some post-employment restrictions when UN officials leave
the Organization, to make sure they don't trade on their previous UN position to
make money in the same countries in which they represented the UN? (See
Somalia article
immediately below.)
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The UN
Cries Poor on Lawless Somalia, While Its Ex-Security Chief Does Business Through
Ruleless Revolving Door
Byline:
Matthew Russell Lee at the UN
UNITED NATIONS,
September 6 -- The UN accepts military intelligence from governments it will not
name, because the member states refuse to provide funds for such intelligence,
the head of the UN Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari said Wednesday. Inner City
Press had asked about Somalia, and UN DPA's previous statement that it relies
for information on its office in Nairobi, which says it has no monitoring
mandate in Somalia.
"That it
is based in Nairobi is instructive," answered Mr. Gambari, adding that the UN is
keeping a close eye on Somalia and is "doing the best we can." He explained the
lack of plans for any UN force to Somalia in terms of the lack of financing,
pointing to the African Union's shortfall for its Darfur mission. "Where is the
financing?" asked Prof. Gambari. He suggested increased use of such UN agencies
and affiliates as the humanitarian unit OCHA and the UN Development Program.
Mr.
Gambari's response was decidedly more restrained that a recent online commentary
by the ex-UN head of security for Somalia, American Wayne Long, who last month
wrote of U.S. strategy in Somalia:
"in order to win a
war like this at least cost in US lives, a true superpower plays the Great Game.
Playing the black hats against the blacker hats of America's enemies saves US
military lives and treasure - HELLO!!!"
Call it
conflict prevention. The above is online, as of September 6, at
http://www.topix.net/forum/news/terrorism/TFEQTCJO1PABE9RG9
On September 6 at UN Headquarters, Inner
City Press again asked about the reports of Ethiopian troops in Somalia and how
the UN might at least confirm this. Mr. Gambari responded that "some governments
share some intelligence, I don't want to mention names. Otherwise we would have
no capacity. Member-states would not welcome the enhancement of the Secretariat
in terms of intelligence gathering." Video
here,
from Minute 49:15.
Somalia
per UN: Money Can Be Made
On UN Ethics, A Long Hypothetical --
Wayne Long, That Is
Inner
City Press' sources in Somalia provide a quite different picture of
member-states' actions and intelligence gathering in Somalia, which is recounted
here including to serves as a hypothetical for reform. They say that retired
general William Garrison, who commanded U.S. forces in Somalia in 1993 and for
identification purposes was played by Sam Shepherd in the movie Black Hawk
Down, has been plotting for some time to open a private, for profit airport
or landing strip in Somalia, and more recently to buy and run an airline,
Trackmark. They say that Garrison's entrepreneurialism, which may also not be
unrelated to intelligence gathering, is being assisted by Wayne Long, who was
previously the United Nations' head of security in Somalia. Mr. Long is an
American, graduate of Texas A&M.
Apparently unlike the UN Political Office on Somalia, Inner City Press in
pursuing its monitoring mandate remains in contact with informed sources, and
even... consults "open source" resources, otherwise known as the Internet.
Whereon one finds ex-UN staffer Wayne Long, hiding in plain site. Listing his
address, accurately, as Nairobi, Kenya, Mr. Long on August 3, 2006 posted an
exasperated comment of a (U.S.) true believer:
"in order to win a
war like this at least cost in US lives, a true superpower plays the Great Game.
Playing the black hats against the blacker hats of America's enemies saves US
military lives and treasure - HELLO!!!"
This is
online, as of September 6, at
http://www.topix.net/forum/news/terrorism/TFEQTCJO1PABE9RG9
Slightly more
diplomatic, writing as Wayne E. Long he has published an op-ed in the
International Herald Tribune urging the U.S. to beef up its military with
immigrants with green cards; the IHT op-ed, of March 1, 2006, identified him
only as "a retired colonel in the U.S. Army," nothing about the UN.
Contrary
to Ibrahim Gambari's statement Wednesday that the UN must rely on unnamed
governments for intelligence, some close observers note that the UN's operations
in Somalia and places like it are "top-heavy with Americans," in part so that
the U.S. can gather intelligence either on-the-cheap and/or under cover of the
UN's blue flag. The revolving door profit making comes later (but may also be
connected).
As
summarized by an Inner City Press source who has seen Mr. Long, in this case the
UN employed as its chief security officer in a volatile country a gung-ho,
red-blooded "use the black hats" American, who since leaving the UN is
reportedly cashing in with dodgy business ventures in the same country in which
he represented the United Nations.
Wednesday
afternoon Inner City Press asked UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric for an
on-the-record statement about the existence or non-existence within the present
UN, or that UN envisioned by Kofi Annan's reform proposals, of any safeguards
against revolving doors by which former UN officials could make money in the
locales of their UN tour of duty, using their UN contacts. A closed place UN
source, insisting on not being identified, said he doubts any current rules
prohibit it, since the rules were "made in the 1950s." Speaking on-the-record,
Mr. Dujarric said he had asked upstairs and would provide an answer later on
Wednesday. After 7 p.m. the following was provided to Inner City Press as an official
on-the-record statement of the UN on its policy:
"After leaving
its employment, the United Nations expects its staff members to conduct
themselves in a manner which would not bring disrepute to the organization.
"The current UN staff
rules and regulations only apply to serving staff. There are currently
discussions in-house focusing on the subject of post-employment restrictions so
as to avoid any possible conflict of interest. Substantive changes to staff
rules would need to be approved by the General Assembly."
The General
Assembly meetings are about to begin. But it does not appear that Mr. Annan
included any anti-resolving door or post-employment safeguards in his package of
proposed reforms. Developing...
UN-Heard on Uighurs
The UN's
Alliance of Civilizations, or at least its High Level Group, has met in New York
for the past two days. There have been stakeouts for photographer in the UN
basement, on Tuesday, and on 1st Avenue and 46th Street on Thursday. The main
"get," fruitlessly pursued by TV and print reporters, has been ex-Iranian
president Katami. Following remarks he made in Chicago on his way to New York he
has decided, or it has been decided for him, to not speak to the press.
Appearing
for a press conference Wednesday were the co-chairs of the Alliance,
Mr. Federico
Mayor of Spain and Mr. Mehmet Aydin of Turkey. The latter began by demanding
that questions relate solely to the Alliance and its work. Okay then.
Back in June 2006,
Inner City Press asked Messrs. Mayor and Aydin what the Alliance was doing to
the East, in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Mr. Mayor back in June
said, good question, and pointed out that there are representatives of China and
India in the high level group. It's not just about Muslims and the West, they
said.
Now the Alliance's website
uses as two of its three lead examples precisely this phrasing: the West, or
Western societies. Click
here to
view. So on Wednesday Inner City Press asked what the Alliance has done, even in
speaking to its Chinese representative Pan Guang, about the treatment of Uighurs,
including those freed from Guantanamo Bay but now in limbo in Albania. (Most
recently, it is reported that if Albania does not refoule these Uighurs,
China's Security Council veto may impact the pending status talks on Kosovo.)
"You are absolutely right,"
said Mr. Mayor, who went on to saying that in China "the authoritarian
mechanisms are still there," and that the Alliance has to "denounce realities as
they are." A fellow journalist noted that no concrete actions were mentioned in
response (video
here,
from 30:30 to 31:30). Mr. Mayor said that the Alliance is deciding what to
report and recommend to the Secretary General, "not only on religion but also on
freedom of expression."
On that, note that Uzbekistan
has mostly recently
denied the right of counsel to
folk singer Dadakhon Khasanov, indicted by the Karimov government, for his song
"Andijan." Click
here to
hear and download an MP3 of the song, and pass it on.
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Old London
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UN Bets the
House on Lebanon, While Willfully Blind in Somalia and Pinned Down in
Kinshasa
Stop Bank
Branch Closings and Monopolies in the Katrina Zone, Group Says,
Challenging Regions- AmSouth Merger
Ship-Breakers
Missed by UN's Budget for Travel and Consultants in Bangladesh, Largest
UNIFIL Troop Donor
Sudan Cites
Hezbollah, While UN Dances Around Issues of Consent and Sex Abuse in the
Congo, Passing the UNIFIL Hat
With Somalia on
the Brink of Horn-Wide War, UN Avoids Question of Ethiopian Invasion
In UN's Lebanon
Frenzy, Darfur Is Ignored As Are the Disabled, "If You Crave UNIFIL,
Can't You Make Do With MONUC?"
UN Decries
Uzbekistan's Use of Torture, While Helping It To Tax and Rule; Updates
on UNIFIL and UNMIS Off-Message
At the UN,
Lebanon Resolution Passes with Loophole, Amb. Gillerman Says It Has All
Been Defensive
On Lebanon,
Russian Gambit Focuses Franco-American Minds, Short Term Resolution Goes
Blue Amid Flashes of Lightening
Africa Can Solve
Its Own Problems, Ghanaian Minister Tells Inner City Press, On LRA Peace
Talks and Kofi Annan's Views
At the UN, Jay-Z
Floats Past Questions on Water Privatization and Sweatshops, Q'Orianka
Kilcher in the Basement
In the UN
Security Council, Speeches and Stasis as Haiti is Forgotten, for a
Shebaa Farms Solution?
UN Silence on
Congo Election and Uranium, Until It's To Iran or After a Ceasefire, and
Council Rift on Kony
At the UN Some
Middle Eastern Answers, Updates on Congo and Nepal While Silence on
Somalia
On Lebanon,
Franco-American Resolution Reviewed at UN in Weekend Security Council
Meeting
UN Knew of Child
Soldier Use by Two Warlords Whose Entry into Congo Army the UN
Facilitated
Impunity's in
the Air, at the UN in Kinshasa and NY, for Kony and Karim and MONUC for
Kazana
UN Still Silent
on Somalia, Despite Reported Invasion, In Lead-Up to More Congo Spin
UN's Guehenno
Says Congo Warlord Just Needs Training, and Kazana Probe Continues
With Congo
Elections Approaching, UN Issues Hasty Self-Exoneration as Annan Is
Distracted
In DR Congo, UN
Applauds Entry into Army of Child-Soldier Commander Along with Kidnapper
Spinning the
Congo, UN Admits Hostage Deal with Warlord That Put Him in Congolese
Army
At the UN, Dow
Chemical's Invited In, While Teaming Up With Microsoft is Defended
Kofi Annan
Questioned about Congolese Colonel Who Kidnapped Seven UN Soldiers
At the UN,
Speeches While Gaza Stays Lightless and Insurance Not Yet Paid
At the UN
Poorest Nations Discussed, Disgust at DRC Short Shrift, Future UN
Justice?
At the UN
Wordsmiths Are At Work on Zimbabwe, Kony, Ivory Coast and Iran
UN Silent As
Congolese Kidnapper of UN Peacekeepers Is Made An Army Colonel: News
Analysis
At
the UN, New Phrase Passes Resolution called Gangster-Like by North Korea; UK
Deputy on the Law(less)
UN's Guehenno
Speaks of "Political Overstretch" Undermining Peacekeeping in Lower
Profile Zones
In Gaza Power
Station, the Role of Enron and the U.S. Government's OPIC Revealed by UN
Sources
At UN, North
Korean Knot Attacked With Fifty Year Old Precedent, Game Continues Into
Weekend
UN's Corporate
Partnerships Will Be Reviewed, While New Teaming Up with Microsoft, and
UNDP Continues
Gaza Resolution
Vetoed by U.S., While North Korea Faces Veto and Chechnya Unread
BTC Briefing,
Like Pipeline, Skirts Troublespots, Azeri Revelations
Conflicts of
Interest in UNHCR Program with SocGen and Pictet Reveal Reform Rifts
At the UN, A Day
of Resolutions on Gaza, North Korea and Iran, Georgia as Side Dish
UN Grapples with
Somalia, While UNDP Funds Mugabe's Human Rights Unit, Without
Explanation
In North Korean
War of Words, Abuses in Uganda and Impunity Go Largely Ignored
On North Korea,
Blue Words Move to a Saturday Showdown, UNDP Uzbek Stonewall
As the World
Turns in Uganda and Korea, the UN Speaks only on Gaza, from Geneva
North Korea in
the UN: Large Arms Supplant the Small, and Confusion on Uganda
UN Gives Mugabe
Time with His Friendly Mediator, Refugees Abandoned
At the UN,
Friday Night's Alright for Fighting; Annan Meets Mugabe
UN Acknowledges
Abuse in Uganda, But What Did Donors Know and When? Kazakh Questions
In Uganda, UNDP
to Make Belated Announcement of Program Halt, But Questions Remain (and
see
The New Vision,
offsite).
Disarmament
Abuse in Uganda Leads UN Agency to Suspend Its Work and Spending
Disarmament
Abuse in Uganda Blamed on UNDP, Still Silent on Finance
Alleged Abuse in
Disarmament in Uganda Known by UNDP, But Dollar Figures Still Not Given:
What Did UN Know and When?
Strong Arm on
Small Arms: Rift Within UN About Uganda's Involuntary Disarmament of
Karamojong Villages
UN in Denial on
Sudan, While Boldly Predicting the Future of Kosovo/a
UN's Selective
Vision on Somalia and Wishful Thinking on Uighurs
UN Habitat
Predicts The World Is a Ghetto, But Will Finance Be Addressed at
Vancouver World Urban Forum?
At the UN, a
Commando Unit to Quickly Stop Genocide is Proposed, by Diplomatic Sir
Brian Urquhart
UN's Annan
Concerned About Use of Terror's T-Word to Repress, Wants
Freedom of Information
UN Waffles on
Human Rights in Central Asia and China; ICC on Kony and a Hero from
Algiers
At the UN,
Internal Justice Needs Reform, While in Timor Leste, Has Evidence Gone
Missing?
UN & US,
Transparency for Finance But Not Foreign Affairs: Somalia, Sovereignty
and Senator Tom Coburn
In Bolton's Wake,
Silence and Speech at the UN, Congo and Kony, Let the Games Begin
Pro-Poor Talk and
a Critique of the World Trade Organization from a WTO Founder: In UN
Lull, Ugandan Fog and Montenegrin Mufti
Human Rights
Forgotten in UN's War of Words, Bolton versus Mark Malloch Brown: News
Analysis
In Praise of
Migration, UN Misses the Net and Bangalore While Going Soft on Financial
Exclusion
UN Sees Somalia
Through a Glass, Darkly, While Chomsky Speaks on Corporations and
Everything But Congo
AIDS Ends at the
UN? Side Deals on Patents, Side Notes on Japanese Corporations,
Salvadoran and Violence in Burundi
On AIDS at the
UN, Who Speaks and Who Remains Unseen
Corporate Spin on
AIDS, Holbrooke's Kudos to Montenegro and its Independence (May 31, 2006)
Kinshasa Election
Nightmares, from Ituri to Kasai. Au Revoir Allan Rock; the UN's
Belly-Dancing
Working with
Warlords, Insulated by Latrines: Somalia and Pakistan Addressed at the
UN
The Silence of
the Congo and Naomi Watts; Between Bolivia and the World Bank
Human Rights
Council Has Its Own Hanging Chads; Cocky U.S. State Department Spins
from SUVs
Child Labor and
Cargill and Nestle; Iran, Darfur and WHO's on First with Bird Flu
Press Freedom?
Editor Arrested by Congo-Brazzaville, As It Presides Over Security
Council
The
Place of the Cost-Cut UN in Europe's Torn-Up Heart;
Deafness to Consumers, Even by the Greens
Background Checks
at the UN, But Not the Global Compact; Teaching Statistics from
Turkmenbashi's Single Book
Ripped Off Worse
in the Big Apple, by Citigroup and Chase: High Cost Mortgages Spread in
Outer Boroughs in 2005, Study Finds
Burundi: Chaos at
Camp for Congolese Refugees, Silence from UNHCR, While Reform's Debated
by Forty Until 4 AM
In Liberia, From
Nightmare to Challenge; Lack of Generosity to Egeland's CERF, Which
China's Asked About
The Chadian
Mirage: Beyond French Bombs, Is Exxon In the Cast? Asylum and the
Uzbeks, Shadows of Stories to Come
Through the UN's
One-Way Mirror, Sustainable Development To Be Discussed by Corporations,
Even Nuclear Areva
Racial
Disparities Grew Worse in 2005 at Citigroup, HSBC and Other Large Banks
Mine Your Own
Business: Explosive Remnants of War and the Great Powers, Amid the
Paparazzi
Human Rights Are
Lost in the Mail: DR Congo Got the Letter, But the Process is Still
Murky
Iraq's Oil to be
Metered by Shell, While Basrah Project Remains Less than Clear
At the UN, Dues
Threats and Presidents-Elect, Unanswered Greek Mission Questions
Kofi, Kony,
Kagame and Coltan: This Moment in the Congo and Kampala
As Operation
Swarmer Begins, UN's Qazi Denies It's Civil War and Has No Answers if
Iraq's Oil is Being Metered
Cash Crop: In
Nepal, Bhutanese Refugees Prohibited from Income Generation Even in
their Camps
The Shorted and
Shorting in Humanitarian Aid: From Davos to Darfur, the Numbers Don't
Add Up
UN Reform:
Transparency Later, Not Now -- At Least Not for AXA - WFP Insurance
Contract
In Congolese
Chaos, Shots Fired at U.N. Helicopter Gunship
In the Sudanese
Crisis, Oil Revenue Goes Missing, UN Says
Empty Words on
Money Laundering and Narcotics, from the UN and Georgia
What is the Sound
of Eleven Uzbeks Disappearing? A Lack of Seats in Tashkent, a Turf War
at UN
Kosovo: Of
Collective Punishment and Electricity; Lights Out on Privatization of
Ferronikeli Mines
Abkhazia:
Cleansing and (Money) Laundering, Says Georgia
Post-Tsunami
Human Rights Abuses, including by UNDP in the Maldives
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Citigroup
Dissembles at United Nations Environmental Conference
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