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Amid
Sahel
Standstill, UN
Committee Asks
Why Prodi Is
Based in Rome
UNITED
NATIONS, May
10 -- When
Romano Prodi,
ostensibly the
UN's envoy on
if
not in the
Sahel, became
a candidate
for the
Italian
presidency,
the
UN of
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon made
excuses,
telling Inner
City
Press the
question of
conflict of
interest was
"moot,"
because Prodi
lost.
But
the UN
Advisory
Committee of
Administrative
and Budgetary
Questions
is not so
forgiving.
Their report
on Prodi's
office says
that Prodi's
fundraising
"does
not
necessarily
require the
headquarters
of the Office
to be located
in Rome, or a
large share of
the staffing
of the Office
to be located
outside the
Sahel region.
The Advisory
Committee
...believes
that
closer
proximity to
or its
placement in
the region
would allow
the
Office of the
Special Envoy
to fully
engage and
coordinate
with the
numerous
United Nations
offices/entities
and
international
actors
present in the
countries of
the Sahel
dealing with
similar
issues."
And
so, "the
Advisory
Committee
recommends
that the
General
Assembly
invite the
Secretary-General
to review the
current
arrangements
for
the Office of
the Special
Envoy and to
consider
alternative
locations
of the Office
in the Sahel
region. In
developing his
proposals, the
Secretary-General
should be
requested to
take full
advantage of
the
opportunities
for realizing
synergies with
the other
United Nations
entities
present in the
countries of
the region,
and avoid all
duplicative
activity."
Why
IS Prodi
allowed to be
based in Rome?
And what has
he
accomplished?
The Sahel
Strategy,
assigned to
him in
October, is
still not
done,
pushed back to
June 15.
Now this. Is
it time
for a change?
Watch this
site.
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