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No
Confidence in
Ban Ki-moon
Text Released
After 5 Days,
Ban Hadn't
Seen
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 29 --
The UN Staff
Union on
January 24
passed a
resolution of
"no
confidence"
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon.
Inner
City Press exclusively
covered the
vote and
meeting,
in which Ban's
response to
Inner City
Press at his
press
conference two
days
previous that
those who
oppose his
proposals are
"selfish."
On
January 25,
Inner City
Press asked
Ban's
Associate
Spokesman
Farhan
Haq for the
Secretariat's
response to
the
resolution,
which
criticizes
Ban's spending
on travel and
UN
Peacekeeping
waste.
Haq
replied that
the
Secretariat,
and Ban,
hadn't yet
seen the
resolution.
Since then,
Ban has been
among other
places in
Davos,
Switzerland.
Now
five days
later, the
Staff Union
leadership has
released
the
resolution,
here.
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