Date
February 22, 2006
Title
Security Council meets to discuss Peacekeeping operations, particularly procurement practices(press release)
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http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8645.doc.htm
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Just for starters the Secretary-General, who has been at the helm of the UN for nine years, sent his Chief of Staff, who has been on the job for one year, to brief the UN Security Council on financial scandals concerning peacekeeping-related procurement (valued at $1.4 billion in 2005). An embarrassed Mark Malloch Brown explained "The Secretary-General felt that...[I] would be the most appropriate person to update the Council on such important issues." Compare the Secretary-General's leap at the opportunity just over a week ago to open the meeting of the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (the same Committee that displayed a map without the UN member state of Israel at its previous session.) Is the Secretary-General under the impression that it's ok to stick to a rigorous round of cocktail hours, or sticking his neck out occasionally to criticize the United States, for the remainder of his 10 months in office?

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