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UN Panel's "Coherence" Plan Urges More Power to UNDP, Despite Its Silence on Human Rights

Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN

UNITED NATIONS, November 9 -- They met in Nairobi, they met in Vienna and Rome.  There were three prime ministers, and what's called the "Manchurian Candidate" now slated to head the World Food Program, Josette Sheeran Shiner. There were two former presidents, including Tanzania's Ben Mkapa whom Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe selected to carry his message to Britain.  They talked about coherence, apparently incessantly. And at the end of the process, many of their proposals involve centralizing UN operations in each country, under the leadership of the UN Development Program, UNDP.

            Their report, released today but available for days and reviewed Monday by AP, says on page 14 that "to ensure that there is no potential for, or perception of, a conflict of interest, UNDP should establish an institutional firewall between the management of its programmatic role and management of the Resident Coordinator system."

            There's at least one problem with this conflict of interest analysis: the head of UNDP, Turkey's Kemal Dervis, was on the very panel that proposes awarding his agency more power.

Coherence caucus

            Another problem is UNDP's current lack of transparency.  UNDP's Dervis, although based in New York, has not appeared to take reporters questions in UN Headquarters for 14 months and counting. Meanwhile it often takes weeks to get a response from UNDP to the simplest of questions, such as "Does UNDP fund disarmament by the Ugandan army? How much is spent? Of what does UNDP's program in Somalia consist?"

            Here are some sample UNDP answers:

From: william.orme [at] undp.org

To: Inner City Press

Cc: kemal.dervis [at] undp.org; dujarric [at] undp.org

Sent: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:00 AM

Subject: Re: Here are (long) pending questions re UNDP

Regarding Uganda: Your request, repeated below, is for information regarding a Ugandan government inquiry into a Ugandan government disarmament program, as reported in the Ugandan press. As we conveyed to the Spokesman's office when you first raised this question there, neither UNDP nor the UN is the appropriate source for comment on a member-state government inquiry; we would suggest perhaps the UN mission from Uganda may help. For the record, as we have explained previously, there was no 'suspension of funding' from UNDP for Ugandan government disarmament programs, as there never was any such funding to begin with. As UNDP has reported to you and others in the past, UNDP halted activity in the start-up stage on its own directly managed small community development project in Karamoja, due to the deteriorating security situation there; as is typical in such areas, this project included a voluntary disarmament component, unrelated to and which should not be confused with a Ugandan military  disarmament campaign in the region, about which you and many others have reported in the past.

            This answer is inconsistent even with UNDP's prior statements on Karamoja. Yet not once during this controversy has UNDP's Dervis taken questions on the topic.  From the same belated response:

Inner City Press question: > On Turkmenistan, how does UNDP explain its participation in and statements in connection with Turkmenbashi's celebration earlier this month of partnership with UNDP while Turkmenistan's human rights record, including but not limited to  the recent death in custody of a critical journalist, has led even the EU to  take action and step back from a trade pact?

UNDP Answer: As you know, the United Nations Development Program is the coordinator of UN system activities in UN member-states in the developing world as well as the leader of long-term UN development efforts in all UN member-states in the developing world. UNDP a permanent presence in all these member-states, which are the sovereign hosts of the locally based projects and international staff of the UN funds, programs and agencies. UNDP's historic commitment over 50 years to its ongoing work in developing nations on the UN system's behalf has never been contingent upon nor construed as an endorsement of  the specific policies or practices of specific host governments. The UN agencies which have the mandate of reviewing and responding to reports and incidents of the kind you cite-- UNESCO and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights-- have spoken out clearly forcefully on such cases on behalf of the Secretary-General and the entire UN system.

            Coherence, anyone? To be continued.

On WFP, Annan and Ban Ki-Moon Hear and See No Evil, While Resume of Josette Sheeran Shiner Is Edited

Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN

UNITED NATIONS, November 7 -- In the hours after Josette Sheeran Shiner was "confirmed" as the new head of the UN World Food Program, questions continued to arise.

   At the UN spokesman's noon briefing, reporters asked about Ms. Sheeran Shiner's now-UN resume, which omits previous claims of status as  Pulitzer Prize finalist and as promoter of the interests of U.S. agribusiness, and about the involvement of the U.S. and of Ban Ki-Moon (and another Moon, see below) in choosing Ms. Sheeran Shiner.

            At a 10 a.m. stakeout interview, Inner City Press asked U.S. Amb. Bolton: "On WFP, did the U.S. reach out to the incoming secretary- general, Ban Ki-Moon, in order to get his position on it? Video on UNTV, from Minute 2:48.

            Ambassador Bolton replied, as transcribed by the U.S. Mission, "My understanding is that the secretary-general consulted Ban Ki-Moon's office, and we certainly supported that and supported the decision to go ahead with Josette Sheeran's announcement. As I've said to you before, this is almost exactly what happened in late 1991, when Javier Perez de Cuellar and the then- director general of the FAO [Edward Saouma] when they appointed Cathy Bertini to be the executive director of the World Food Program."

            At the UN's noon briefing, Inner City Press asked Kofi Annan's spokesman Stephane Dujarric when Mr. Annan had communicated with Ban Ki-Moon, and if the decision on Ms. Sheeran Shiner had already been made before they spoke.

            Mr. Dujarric replied that that the two had spoken "in the past few days," after Mr. Annan had interviewed Ms. Sheeran Shiner, and characterized the process as "consultative" and "rigorous."

            Inner City Press asked if Ms. Sheeran Shiner had been asked, by Mr. Annan or the other outgoing UN official who interviewed her, including Mark Malloch Brown and Jan Egeland, about her 20-year affiliation with Sun Myung Moon and for her position on his stated views, including that the UN should be destroyed, or merged with the U.S..

            As reported by Associated Press, Mr. Dujarric replied that "People's religious affiliation is their own. People are not judged on their religious affiliation."

            Mr. Dujarric also said, "People's religious affiliation is not a matter of concern." Video on UNTV, Minute 22:26 to 23:17.

S-G and Diouf

            Sun Myung Moon's speeches, proudly online, deal not infrequently with the United Nations, including for example his statement that

"After sending out our missionaries to 120 nations, we can influence those nations, and by having the youth of those nations mobilize, we can form a new United Nations." http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon74/SM741028.htm

  Later, Sun Myung Moon said:

"All five organizations will integrate into a new UN. Until today the United Nations has represented only the political realm... Through the United Nations, we can connect to the whole world and unite the whole world. The world is the extension of the family. Students, centering on True Mother, will form a big plus in relationship to the big minus formed by the IRFWP and FWP. Centering on True Mother, mind and body must be completely united, and on that foundation True Mother goes to unite with True Father; then all children, young and old, will all be completely unified, resulting in the unification of the whole world." http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon95/SM950207.htm

Earlier, Time magazine's "Statements of 'Master' Moon" included:

"The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power."  

Josette Sheeran Shiner on State.gov

            Reuters reported that "she joined Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in 1975 and was married in a mass wedding but left the church in 1997." The Times of London went further:

"Ms Sheeran joined Rev Sun Myung Moon’s South Korea-based Unification Church in 1975 and married in a mass wedding before leaving the church about 1997. UN officials said that Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, had been reluctant to appoint Ms Sheeran, Washington’s official candidate, fearing that she lacked logistical experience."

            And The Guardian phrased it in the form of a question:

"in Rome, where WFP has its headquarters, some officials privately expressed concern. 'She has never distanced herself from the views of this group which, given its extreme nature, you would think was appropriate,' said one. He referred to Mr Moon's claims that the Holocaust was a result of the death of Jesus. 'It's sufficiently bizarre to warrant an explanation - that, and the duration of her involvement.'"

            According to the UN spokesman, no question was asked, by Kofi Annan, Mark Malloch Brown, Jan Egeland -- nor apparently Ban Ki-Moon. Perhaps the answers to these questions, pre-Rome, are to be found in Washington, DC. Developing...

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