Amid
Saudi Syria
Snafu,
"Acting" DGACM
Chief's
Malcorra Links
Raised
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Follow up on
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 2 --
With a cloud
thrown over
the UN General
Assembly
vote on Saudi
Arabia's Syria
resolution by
a notice
linking to a
version of the
resolution
Saudi Arabia
told member
states had
been
superseded,
Inner City
Press asked
four UN
spokespeople
who was
responsible.
Two
and a half
hours before
the scheduled
vote, there
was still no
answer. Now it
is time.
Back
on
July 13, 2012,
the UN announced
that Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon
had named
"Jean-Jacques
Graisse of
Belgium as
Acting
Head,
Department of
General
Assembly and
Conference
Management."
His
UN
"Biographical
Note"
states that
"Mr. Graisse’s
most recent
position was
as Senior
Deputy
Executive
Director
responsible
for the World
Food Program’s
(WFP)
multibillion-dollar
emergency,
development
and logistics
operations
around the
world."
Unstated
but
significant is
that after
Graisse took
over in
January 2004
as
"Senior Deputy
Executive
Director
(Operations
Department),"
in
July 2004 he
brought into
WFP as Deputy
Executive
Director
(Administration)
Susana
Malcorra.
Malcorra
is
now Ban
Ki-moon's
chief of
staff, still
very much
involved in
the
Department of
Field Support
she used to
run, and now,
staff have
exclusively
told Inner
City Press,
"involved" in
DGACM.
They point
also to moves
with the
Advisory
Committee on
Administrative
and Budgetary
Matters, which
we will
address in
coming
days.
But
it raises the
question: why
did Ban (and
Malcorra) name
only an
"Acting" head
of DGACM, the
Secretariat's
largest
Department,
and why THIS
particular
acting chief?
Other
sources say
that Ban
wanted to keep
on in the post
the Egyptian
Muhammad
Shaaban
Shaaban,
despite a
troubling UN
court system
finding
against his
management
practices.
"Reformers"
wanted
Shaaban out;
the compromise
was to appoint
only an
"acting"
head and
apparently
Malcorra got
to choose,
they say. Was
there
recusal?
Others
point
out that the
appointment of
an outside
"acting" head
of
DGACM is
strange, since
in the normal
course
Assistant
Secretary
General Franz
Baumann would
have been
named Officer
in Charge.
But
Baumann's
management
moves have
left a trail
of staff
complaints.
And
so an acting
head, and this
one. And now,
this
GA problem.
Watch
this site.
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