At
UN,
Gates
Foundation
Learns How to
Buy Impunity
Like Orr's
Position
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
July 2 -- The
UN under Ban
Ki-moon has
taken to
inventing
new position
without any
General
Assembly
approval,
bypassing
oversight by
using "extra
budgetary
resources."
This means
that while
these appear
to be UN jobs,
with trapping
like immunity
and impunity,
the holder is
not paid by
the UN by some
outside party.
When
Ban
felt compelled
to at least
partially
apply his
so-called five
year mobility
rule to long
time American
staffer Robert
Orr, he
shifted him to
a so called
Public Private
Partnerships
position.
Inner City
Press asked,
is this
position in
the UN budget?
Has it
been approved?
The
answer,
Fifth (Budget)
Committee
sources say,
is no. Orr
said he'll
raise his own
funds, from
corporations,
they say.
Ban
tried
to get the
position
upgraded from
Orr's current
Assistant
Secretary
General level
to Under
Secretary
General, but
even funded
by others, the
UN's
Advisory
Committee on
Administrative
and Budgetary
Questions
balked and
said no, as
exclusively
reported
by Inner City
Press.
Perhaps
less extreme
but along the
same lines,
when Ban
Ki-moon on
June 7, 2012
announced
with fanfare
-- on
the UN's own
UN News Service
-- that he
"appointed
Ms. Amina J.
Mohammed of
Nigeria as his
Special
Adviser on
Post-2015
Development
Planning," it
was not
disclosed that
this position
is not in the
UN Budget and
will be funded
from outside.
Budget
committee
sources
contacted
Inner City
Press,
disgusted to
highlight
that the
"extra
budgetary post
funded by the
Bill and
Melinda
Gates
foundation was
filled by a
candidate who
is affiliated
with...
wait for it...
the Bill and
Melinda Gates
Foundation."
And
the
second half of
that, but not
the first, is
in the UN News
Service
story: Amina
J. Mohammed
"currently
serves on
numerous
international
advisory
panels and
boards,
including the
Global
Development
Program of the
Bill and
Melinda Gates
Foundation."
Here
you
have an
entity, the
sources say,
that while
seeming to
want to
help the UN,
is in fact
undermining
the UN's
credibility by
stealthly
funding a
position which
is given to a
person allied
with it. And
so
it goes at the
UN.
Footnote:
the
other side and
engine of the
Gates empire,
Microsoft, got
into
the UN its
so-called
"Ambassador to
Africa," who
just
happens to be
the brother of
Ban's then
Special
Adviser on
Africa.
Extra
budgetary,
indeed...
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