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As
Ban Gives
DGACM to Gettu
of Ethiopia, Echo
of Addis Grab
at
UNDP
UNITED
NATIONS, March
27 -- The day
after
Tegegnework
Gettu of
Ethiopia was
given the top
job at the UN
Department of
General
Assembly and
Conference
Management,
some of the
reviews among
even African
diplomats were
less than
positive.
A
representative
of another
large African
country
complained to
Inner
City Press,
“Under Gettu,
UNDP moved so
many of its
operations on
the Continent
to Addis.”
Another
agreed, but
shrugged. To
the
victors go the
spoils.
Inner
City Press
covered Gettu
when he was
chief of staff
to UNDP
Administrative
Kemal Dervis.
There was the
stonewalling
about
irregularities
in the North
Korean program
of UNDP.
Later Inner
City
Press was
complained to
by Mathieu
Koumoin about
diversion
of
funds from
Africa to
European
companies by
the UNDP
Global
Environment
Program;
Gettu
apparently did
nothing with
the complaint.
But would he
now?
On
the other
hand,
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon is
described as
“cheap
with USG
spots” for
Africa. He
made Maged
Abdelaziz of
Egypt his
Special
Adviser on
Africa and
many say it's,
diplomatically,
a hard
transition.
How will Gettu
do? Watch this
site.
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