Posted By Colum Lynch
Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 2:53 PM
Some
high-ranking U.N. officials hired in the wake of Ban Ki-moon's re-election
have been receiving something of a hero's welcome at Turtle Bay, marked by the solicitousness one would associate
with, say, a visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a rural hemp
factory.
The U.N. Department of Management (DM) and the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), issued internal memos last month detailing the debuts of their new bosses, undersecretary generals Yukio Takasu, a former veteran Japanese diplomat who once served on the U.N. Security Council, and Wu Hongbo, a former top official in China's foreign ministry, in their first three months of office, while taking note of the incredible pride their staff take in serving the United Nations...
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