Nikki
Haley Comes to
UN To Take Names to Cut, ICP
Provides Those of Ladsous,
Gallach
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 27 – Nine days after a
confirmation hearing in which
she called for accountability
at the UN, including for
peacekeepers' abuses, Nikki
Haley on January 27 came to
the UN and delivered brief
remarks in the lobby, to "take
names" to start cutting (while
supporting what works.) Video
here.
Transcript below.
Here's one:
Jeffrey Feltman, closely
aligned with Hilary Clinton,
arranging an extension on
taxpayer money through June,
so that his UN pension vests.
Inner
City Press exclusive here.
On January
26, Inner City Press asked Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
about a reform Haley mentioned
three times during her
confirmation here. Video
here. UN
transcript here:
Inner City Press:
you keep saying that this
"Auditing and reducing US
funding of international
organizations" is not yet
signed, but the now confirmed
US Ambassador to the UN, three
times in her confirmation
hearing, said that the UN
should not pay
troop-contributing countries
whose peacekeepers are found
to have abused. So
I wanted to know, what's the
threshold currently of the
number of OIOS (Office of
Internal Oversight Services) ,
certified or probable cause
findings that would trigger a
cutting off of funding or the
non-use in the future of a
troop-contributing country,
given that 25
obviously doesn't make it?
Spokesman: Obviously,
these issues are being taken
very seriously and are
examined on a case-by-case
basis.
Inner City Press: One of
the proposals that's been made
even prior to the next year's
budget is simply the possible
veto or threat of veto of the
renewing of mandates of
peacekeeping missions.
What I wanted to know is, how
does that work? I've
seen the Georgia mission
once was disbanded due to a
naming issue. But are
there contingency plans in
place if the mandate for a
functioning,
several-thousand-troop
peacekeeping mission comes up
and it's not extended?
What happens? How does
it keep getting paid?
Spokesman: Well, I… the…
you know, we've had missions
draw down. It happen… if
I'm not mistaken, I think a…
one of the UN's previous
missions in Haiti at some
point was vetoed by a
permanent member of the
Security Council. These
things are extremely
unfortunate, but we have to
abide by the rulings of the
Security Council.
We'll see.
Here's what Haley said:
"Good morning. In
South Carolina, we start off
the days great. You know, it’s
a thrill to be here at the UN.
I will tell you that we have
hit the ground running. There
is a new USUN. We talked to
the staff yesterday, and you
are going to see a change in
the way we do business. It’s
no longer about working harder
– it’s about working smarter,
and we have a fantastic team
at the USUN that’s ready to
prove that.
Our goal with the
administration is to show
value at the UN, and the way
that we’ll show value is to
show our strength, show our
voice, have the backs of our
allies, and make sure that our
allies have our back, as well.
For those who don’t have our
back, we’re taking names – we
will make points to respond to
that accordingly. But this is
a time of strength, this is a
time of action, this is a time
of getting things done. And
this administration is
prepared and ready to go in –
to have me go in, look at the
UN, and everything that’s
working, we’re going to make
it better; everything that’s
not working, we’re going to
try and fix; and anything that
seems to be obsolete and not
necessary, we’re going to do
away with. But this is a time
of fresh eyes, new strength,
new vision, and a great day at
the USUN. Thank you very
much."
On January
24, Inner City Press asked
former UN official, now
Swedish foreign minister
Margot Wallstrom about Haley's
call to defund countries whose
peacekeepers abuse. Tweeted
video here. There are
reforms needed at the UN.
Back on
January 18 before Haley spoke
as nominee for US Ambassador
to the UN, Senator Bob Corker
said he sometimes wondered if
just-left Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon had a pulse.
In fact,
Ban was quite active in
helping his own relatives at
the UN, promoting his son in
law to the top UN job in
Kenya, his brother mining in
Myanmar with a "UN
delegation," indicted nephew
using Ban's name to sell real
estate.
When Haley
began, she said the UN has a
"checkered history." That's
being diplomatic. Consider a
head of Peacekeeping who has
linked rapes to R&R, video
here.
Consider a
head of the UN "Department of
Public Information" who did no
due diligence over indicted UN
briber Ng Lap Seng - then
evicted and still restricts
the Press which asked here
about it. Audit
here, Para 37-40, 20b; NYT
here.
In
response to questions, Haley
praised the UN peacekeeping
mission in Sierra Leone,
questioned the one in South
Sudan and that country's
government. She noted that
countries make money off their
peacekeepers. The case in
point, we note, is Burundi, here.
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