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At UN, Justice System Faces Year-End Collapse as
a JDC Chairman Now Resigns
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of
Inner City Press at the UN: News Analysis
UNITED NATIONS,
November 20 -- On the second day
that Ban Ki-moon's UN failed to answer Wednesday's question of how its
justice
system will continue after its December 31 expiration date, a
chairman of the
UN's Joint Disciplinary Committee told Ban he is
resigning on that date. The
letter's critique of Ban's delay, and of injustice in the UN, is
scathing. Yet
still no answer
to Wednesday's question:
Inner City Press: on this, what
they call the internal justice system, there is a report -- ACABQ came
out with
a report fairly critical of the Secretary-General for not having this
system
ready for January 1. It was supposed to
be ready. One, what’s the reason for the
delay? And two, what’s the
Secretary-General going to do to make sure that some internal justice
system
remains in place (inaudible) on December 31?
UN's Ban and ILO Labor chief, justice for staffers not shown
Deputy Spokesperson: Well,
it's obviously a high priority for the
Secretary-General. I will look into the
question that you have, because I don’t have anything further on it now.
But still
nothing is had, or at least none in provided. And on the evening of
November 21, on Ban's schedule is a "Reception hosted by the
Secretary-General for the United Nations for the Administrative
Tribunal on the occasion of its last session after 59 years." To be
continued.
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