UNaccoutable
on
AIDS, Ban
Ki-moon GIve
Post to
Kazatchkine
Ignoring
Global Fund
Scandal &
Exit
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
23 -- Even on
a topic as
serious as HIV
/ AIDS, the
United Nations
has become a
sinkhole of
patronage
jobs, without
accountability.
Inner
City Press has
previously
covered not
only the
failure of,
but
corruption in,
the so called
"MassiveGood"
UNITAIDS
fundraising
program run by
Philippe
Douste-Blazy
who spent over
$500,000 for a
60 second
video ad
featuring
Spike Lee and
former US
President Bill
Clinton. Click
here for first
exclusive
story, here
for first
follow-up.
But
just before
this AIDS 2012
conference,
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
on Friday,
July 20 doled
out another UN
envoy
position, that
on HIV / AIDS
for Eastern
Europe and
Central Asia,
giving it to
Michel
Kazatchkine of
France.
UNmentioned
in
Ban's
four-paragraph
appointment
was the fact
that
Kazatchkine
left the
Global Fund
earlier this
year amid a
management and
even
corruption
scandal in
Mauritania,
Zimbabwe and
Mali then
probed
by former
Botswana
President
Festus Mogae
former
US HHS
Secretary
Michael
Leavitt.
French
magazine Marianne
pushed the
scandal into
fundraising by
Carla
Bruno-Sarkozy,
click here
for that
The Fund had
to stop making
grants and
appoint a
different
General
Manager,
Santander
banker Gabriel
Jaramillo,
amid calls
for
Kazatchkine to
resign and
be held
accountable.
Now
a few months
later he has a
new post with
the UN. And
last week at
UN
headquarters
in New York,
France held
another
pitching event
for
UNITAIDS in
Conference
Room 5 of the
North Lawn
building, with
not
even the
cursory
acknowledgment
of missing all
of
MassiveGood's
promised
fundraising
targets that
Inner City
Press receives
in
response to
questions in
the UN
briefing room,
from UN envoy
Ray
Chambers and
others.
How
UNaccountable
can this UN
become? The Friday before,
on July 13,
Ban doled out
other such
posts,
including one
on AIDS,
another on
"Global
Education" to
Gordon Brown.
What's next?
Watch this
site.
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