After my previous two posts and assorted other posts I’ve made about the UN, the Telegraph in London provides a nice short synopsis of the United Nations’ Kofi Annan and his quagmire (and note the proper use of the word quagmire, liberals).
Scandals may bring down the ‘secular Pope’
Kofi Annan survived the disasters of UN peacekeeping in Srebrenica and Rwanda, the bitter Security Council divisions over the Iraq war and the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad.
But the man described by some as the “secular Pope” is now more vulnerable than ever, because of growing scandal over his organisation’s mismanagement of sanctions and humanitarian aid to Iraq.
Calls for Mr Annan’s resignation were once restricted to ideologically driven hardline US conservatives. Now diplomats in New York are openly asking whether the secretary-general can remain in office until the end of his term in December 2006.
[…] Mr Annan rose through the ranks of the UN to become secretary-general in 1997. He has apologised for the UN’s failure to protect civilians in Bosnia and Rwanda when he was head of peacekeeping operations in the 1990s.
[…] The fall of Baghdad and the opening up of Saddam Hussein’s archives have revealed how the UN oil-for-food programme, a vast effort to relieve the suffering of Iraqis under sanctions, turned into a colossal fraud.
Saddam siphoned off billions of dollars from the programme to finance his regime and allegedly to pay bribes to favoured politicians around the world. […]
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