U.N. for Sale or Reform?
By Denise Best | Related entries in Blogging, In The News, United NationsQuite significant findings coming out of the Oil for Food investigation by Volcker & Company
In an interview, Mr. Volcker said that while he knew the naming of companies and the exposure of international “machinations” would draw attention, he hoped it would not obscure his committee’s purpose in keeping the focus of their work on the need for United Nations reform.
“In my mind,” he said, “this part of our investigation, looking at the manipulation of the program outside the U.N., strongly reinforces the case that the U.N. itself carries a large part of this responsibility and needs reform.
“Even though we are looking at it from the outside, it kind of screams out at you, ‘Why didn’t somebody blow a whistle?’ The central point is that it all adds up to the same story. You need some pretty thoroughgoing reforms at the U.N.”
Excellent point regarding the need to focus just as much on reforms needed within the U.N., as the emphasis will no doubt gravitate more toward punishing the companies involved.
Of course there needs to be a day of reckoning for the companies and individuals involved in this scandal, but understand that will be treating what is essentially a symptom of a bigger problem — the ineffectiveness that has become the United Nations.
Who is going to police the “World’s Policeman?”
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