[WSIS CS-Plenary] UN News - UNDP director is now Annan's head of staff

[carlos a. afonso]

... truly acceptable to the US: under his admin UNDP signed a broad 
"collaborative" agreement with Microsoft.

--c.a.

-----Original Message-----
From: mclauglm at po.muohio.edu
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:47:11 -0500
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UN News - UNDP director is now Annan's head 
of staff

> Thanks, Robert, for sharing this information. For those who are 
> troubled by such things, Mr. Malloch Brown has been a key figure in 
> the UN Global Compact, private-public partnerships (which have no 
> mechanisms for accountability despite his frequent use of the term), 
> and in the UN move toward market-led development. Which, I would 
> suggest, means that all in all very little has changed. Mr. Malloch 
> Brown is simply more acceptable to the US and other Western countries
> than is Mr. Rizal. If interested, see the following urls for remarks 
> by Mr. Malloch Brown:
> 
> http://www.globalagendamagazine.com/2003/markmallochbrown.asp
> 
> http://www.europaworld.org/issue8/theuncanhelworlbus/01100.htm (The 
> UN Can Help World Business)
> 
> Best wishes to all for peace in the New Year,
> 
> Lisa