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

[Bill McIver]

Related: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/03/international/03nations.html


WJM


carlos a. afonso wrote:

> ... 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
>
>
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