At
UN, DFS Seat
Said Sought by
Khare or
Pollard Amid
Sex Abuse
Delay Beyond 3
Months,
Stonewalling
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 5 -- In
ongoing UN
musical
chairs,
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon on
Friday
announced that
the current
chief of the
Department of
Field Support
Susana
Malcorra will
become his
chief of staff
on April
Fool's Day.
While
Ban and his
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
did not take
any questions
on this topic,
over the
weekend UN
sources told
Inner City
Press that
among those
considered to
replaced
Malcorra at
DFS are not
only Atul
Khare, whose
"Change
Management"
post is being
taken by Ban's
most senior
adviser Kim
Won-soo, but
also current
Office of
Human
Resources
Management
chief
Catherine
Pollard.
But
concurrently
Ban's office
has been
dodging Press
questions
about how
Pollard's OHRM
has handled a
sexual assault
case. On
September 22,
2011 a
complaint was
filed against
an OHRM
manager
working at 380
Madison
Avenue.
The
complainaint
says the New
York Police
Department was
blocked from
entering this
UN-rented
building to
effectuate an
arrest for
sexual
assault.
Inner
City Press has
repeatedly
asked the top
two spokesmen
of Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon about
the incident,
only to be
told that the
harassment
claim is "sub
judice" --
being
investigated
-- and can't
be commented
on.
As
Inner City
Press as asked
about this,
the UN
spokesman have
repeatedly
blurred the
barring of
NYPD from
entering to
arrest a UN
employee for
harassment
with a
separate
incident which
Inner City
Press
witnessed last
month after
the UN allowed
the Sri Lankan
Mission to the
UN to use UN Security to
discourage
press coverage
of the
presence at
the UN Senior
Advisory Group
on
Peacekeeping
Operations of
General
Shavendra
Silva,
whose 58th
Division is
identified in
Ban's own
Panel of
Experts report
as engaged in
war crimes.
Seeking
the UN's
response and
explanation
for banning
the NYPD,
Inner City
Press has
provided
increasingly
detailed
information,
including
citing a January
12, 2012
letter from
OHRM chief
Catherine
Pollard, which
we have put
online here.
(c) UN Photo
Outgoing DSG,
upclimbing
Pollard top
left, 380
Madison not
shown
In
the letter,
Pollard
acknowledges
the complaint
was filed on
September 22,
2011. There is
the applicable
UN rule:
5.17
The
officials
appointed to
conduct the
fact-finding
investigation
shall prepare
a detailed
report, giving
a full account
of the facts
that they have
ascertained in
the process
and attaching
documentary
evidence, such
as written
statements by
witnesses or
any other
documents or
records
relevant to
the alleged
prohibited
conduct. This
report shall
be submitted
to the
responsible
official
normally no
later than
three months
from the date
of submission
of the formal
complaint or
report.
Ban's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
has refused to
answer
questions
about this, or
even to take
them on these
aspects of
Ban's "Change
Management."
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