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UN
Officials For $10 Tell How to Get UN Jobs, UNA-USA
Asked of $1.6 Billion
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of
Inner City Press at the UN: News Analysis
UNITED NATIONS,
April 2 -- How much is getting a
job at the UN worth? The question is raised tonight by an event at the
UN
Association of New York, in which $10 admission is being charged to
hear to UN
officials speak. The flier
says, "Are you intrigued by how to get a job at
the United Nations... Join for a $25 introductory membership
and attend
for free." Otherwise, admission is $10.
Inner
City Press has
written to both the UN Association of New York and to
the larger UN
Association of the USA (UNA-USA) of which it is a part, asking on
deadline how
this
does not violate General Assembly Resolution 92(I), which
provides
that
"Members of
the United Nations should take such legislative or other
appropriate measures as are necessary to prevent the use, without
authorization
by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and in particular for
commercial purposes by means of trademarks or commercial labels, of
the
emblem, the official seal and the name of the United Nations, and of
abbreviations of that name through the use of its initial letters"
To
charge admission
to hear UN officials tell how to get UN jobs clearly seems to a
commercial
purpose.
UN's Ban at UNA-USA, authorization of $10
cover charge for jobs not shown
The two UN officials, Nelly Keita and John Ericson,
are part of the Office of Human Resources
Management, which in turn is part of the Department of Management,
headed by
Angela Kane. Ms. Kane has previously
said that she does not have time to answer such questions, to ask them
at the UN's noon briefing.
At
a recent noon
briefing, UN spokesperson Michele Montas was asked the basis for the
use by
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his officials of a figure of $1.6
billion as
how much the U.S. owes to the UN. Ms. Montas told the reporter that she
had the
information upstairs, then from there said to ask UNA-USA.
So
Inner City
Press, along with the request on deadline to explain the $10 (or $25)
charge to
hear UN officials, has asked for support for and details about the $1.6
billion
figure. It was used as Ban
called the U.S. the "biggest deadbeat"
while reading from talking points prepared, Inner City Press has been
told, by
the UN Information Center in Washington.
When
answers are
provided, they will be published on this site.
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