With
UNDP's Clark Leaving
April 19, ICP Asks UK If
Supports David Miliband, No
Comment
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 26 – With the UN
system facing 40% budget cuts
from the US, on January 25 UN
Development Program chief
Helen Clark confirmed she will
leave on April 19.
While
Inner City Press first
reported the interest of
France's Segolene Royal in
replacing Clark, and the UK's
David Miliband has also been
mentioned.
And so on
January 26 Inner City Press
asked UK Ambassador to the UN
Matthew Rycroft, video
here, UK transcript:
Inner City Press:
Does the UK support David
Miliband to head UNDP?
Amb Rycroft: We look forward
to working with Helen Clark in
her final months in office and
with her successor, and no
further comment. [end]
Some UN
sources have told Inner City
Press this post, "like UNICEF
and WFP, may go to an
American." We'll see.
Of the
candidates to replace the
increasingly discredited Ban
Ki-moon as UN Secretary
General, Clark was the most
active on social media.
She also, as
Inner City Press exposed,
had UNDP go after a UNDP
staff who dared tweet
criticism of her.
She was once
getting a tobacco award but
when exposed
by Inner City Press,
turned it down. There's more
to be said but the news of the
day is the impending budget
cuts.
And why WAS
France minister for
development meeting
with and lobbying
Antonio Guterres on January
25? We'll have more on this.
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