Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Caught between arms and politics The ...

Caught between arms and politics

The bombing of a United Nations building in Baghdad on a summer morning seven years ago may demonstrate that not everyone believes in the apparent good intentions of the humanitarian organisations that are operating in their country.

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/08/20108199227928620.html

Ban says constructive criticism welcome as he reviews accusations in leaked ...

Ban says constructive criticism welcome as he reviews accusations in leaked UN memo

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the value of constructive criticism in the wake of a leaked report by a former senior staff member that attacks his leadership of the United Nations, while pledging to set the record straight on a number of inaccuracies in the document.

In a confidential end-of-assignment report, the former head of the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) reportedly accused Mr. Ban of, among other issues, undercutting the independence of her office, thwarting efforts to hire her own staff, and trying to set up a competing internal investigations unit.

Mr. Ban told a meeting of his senior advisers today that the report by Inga-Britt Ahlenius – a former Auditor-General of Sweden who took the reins of the UN’s internal watchdog in 2005 – is supposed to be a management tool and that it was regrettable it had been leaked to the press.

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