Finally the mfckr is dead ! Kim jong-il to meet Osama bin-laden!

2011 the best year ever !

Osama Bin-Laden was the first

and now at 69 years old

Kim Jong-il

the most criminal and terrorist dictator in the world is

FUCKING DEAD

Go to hell you piece of s*** ...

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@W7VOA #kimjongun the medicine is ready ! in 36 months there will be open parliamentary elections and multi-party system in #NorthKorea! @secgen

Kim Jong-un will attend next

opening session of @UN General Assembly in September 2012, it will be the first for a North Korean Leader.

Did UN agency serve as ATM for North Korea?

March 11, 2007|By Bay Fang, Washington Bureau

click here for this story

WASHINGTON — The United Nations Development Programme office in Pyongyang, North Korea, sits in a Soviet-style compound. Like clockwork, a North Korean official wearing a standard-issue dark windbreaker and slacks would come to the door each business day.

He would take a manila envelope stuffed with cash--a healthy portion of the UN's disbursements for aid projects in the country--and leave without ever providing receipts.

UN-Millionen für Nordkorea

UN-Millionen für Nordkorea
UNDP-Prüfbericht bestätigt schwere Unregelmäßigkeiten.

Pjöngjang/Genf. (rel) Mitarbeiter und Funktionäre des UN-Entwicklungsprogramms (UNDP) für Nordkorea sollen entgegen interner Richtlinien seit 1997 Güter und Hilfsgelder in Millionenhöhe direkt und ohne Kontrolle an das Regime in Pjöngjang geleistet haben. Dies geht aus einem 353 Seiten starken Untersuchungsbericht (External Independent Investigative Review Panel) der UN hervor, der Anfang Juni veröffentlicht wurde und heute, Dienstag, neuerlich in Genf beraten werden soll.
Wie das US-Nachrichtenportal Fox-News zitiert, habe das UNDP der Besetzung "heikler UN-Mitarbeiterposten" wie den des Finanzreferenten durch die nordkoreanische Regierung geduldet, obwohl Angehörigen eines "Empfangsstaates" die Ausübung von UN-Funktionen nicht gestattet ist.

Hinzu kommt, dass die Gehälter der nordkoreanischen UN-Mitarbeiter laut Fox-News "in harter Währung" und direkt an das Regime in Pjöngjang überwiesen worden sein sollen. Wofür das Geld aber verwendet wurde, konnte nie überprüft werden. Laut Untersuchungsbericht dürften mindestens 9,12 Millionen Dollar irregulär geflossen sein.

Das Entwicklungsprogramm der Vereinten Nationen steht aber nicht nur wegen zweifelhafter Personalentscheidungen und illegaler Überweisungen unter Beschuss. Die Autoren des Berichts wollen zudem wissen, dass auch so genannte "duale Güter", die sowohl für zivile als auch für terroristische Zwecke genutzt werden können, nach Nordkorea geliefert wurden. Neben Computern und Software soll das Regime Satelliten-Empfangsgeräte, Spektrometer und Messapparate erhalten haben.

Nach Auffliegen der Verstöße wurde das Programm 2005 beendet. Die Verantwortlichen wurden bisher gerichtlich nicht belangt.

Armut aus der Villa bekämpfen

Hollands Ex-Entwicklungshilfeministerin Eveline Herfkens erfreut sich gerade anhaltend negativer Publizität. Die Sozialdemokratin wurde von ihrer Regierung nach New York geschickt, um dort im Auftrag der UNO einen Beitrag im Kampf gegen die Armut zu leisten.

In wenigstens einem Fall ist ihr das auch gelungen - es handelt sich allerdings um ihre eigene Person. Sie strich gegen die Regeln der UNO aus dem niederländischen Staatshaushalt ca. 280.000 Dollar Miet-Subventionen ein - die sie nun nicht zurückbezahlen will. Aussenminister Maxime Verhagen will sie möglicherweise verklagen.

Jetzt wird sie auch noch verspottet. Die Zeitschrift “Weekend” zeigt ein Foto von einer “rauchenden grauen Dame” (De Telegraaf), die voller Entschlossenheit im Kampf gegen die Armut in einem VW-Beatle “bei einer beachtlichen Villa in einem Naturgebiet von Washington” vorfährt. Die Villa soll angeblich 1,5 Millionen Dollar wert sein. Wer den Schaden hat…

US Government Statement on Review of UNDP's Operations in North Korea

USUN PRESS RELEASE # 143(08)
June 12, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Office of Press and Public Diplomacy
United States Mission to the United Nations
140 East 45th Street
New York, N.Y. 10017

U.S. Statement on the Report of the External Independent Investigative Review Panel: UN Development Program Activities in North Korea 1999-2007, June 12, 2008

http://www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov/press_releases/20080612_143.html

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The United States welcomes the Panel's Report and remains concerned by a number of its findings and the on-going need for corrective action. The United States has been working with UNDP management for over a year now to address systemic weaknesses through our UN Transparency and Accountability Initiative (UNTAI). In the coming months, we will follow up with UNDP management to address the Panel's findings and recommendations. We expect our collective effort to result in an appropriate transparency and accountability system for the organization that can help turn the page on this episode.

During the 1999-2007 period covered by the Panel's review, the United States provided over $1.5 billion to support UNDP and its activities worldwide. As one of the largest donors to UNDP and a member of its Executive Board, the United States has a responsibility to ensure the organization meets the standards of accountability and trust expected of public institutions. We must ensure that funding provided to UNDP is used in the most effective way possible and for its intended purpose -- to help the world's poor. In this spirit we offer the following observations.

The Report, which is voluminous, confirms many previous concerns raised by Member States and the findings of both the UN Board of Auditors (BOA) and the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) that there were broad management deficiencies across the entire UNDP/DPRK Country Program regarding payment modalities, staffing practices and project monitoring.

Specifically, we note that the Report confirms that payments were made in bearer instruments, such as cash or 'cash-checks.' As a result of this practice, this Report, like the previous BOA Report, was unable to determine whether check payments made by UNDP to persons and entities were received by the intended beneficiaries. In fact, the Report confirms that "core functions," such as Finance Officer, were performed by local North Korean personnel seconded from the DPRK government. The Report also confirms that UNDP project visits were circumscribed by the DPRK government through required advance "clearance or authorization." Further, the Report confirmed that there were broader management deficiencies relating to project monitoring and implementation across the entire UNDP DPRK Country Program.

As the U.S. Senate PSI Report indicated, these problems might have been addressed earlier had internal audits done by UNDP been made available to Members of the UNDP Executive Board. We therefore welcome the Panel's recommendation that UNDP make its internal audits available to Member States. We are working with UNDP and other Funds and Programs to ensure this becomes a normal practice across the UN system.

We note that the figures provided in the Report are inexact regarding the transfer of funds to the DPRK or DPRK-controlled entities by UNDP and by other UN agencies acting on UNDP's behalf. The figures cover a wide range of possible amounts. Nonetheless, the report does appear to confirm much larger figures than reported earlier by UNDP.

In reviewing available UNDP project budget documents, the Panel was unable to determine in 74% cases "whether the ultimate beneficiary is consistent with the payee name indicated in the financial system," reflecting lax fiduciary practices. Moreover, the Panel was unable to conclusively determine if diversion occurred.

The Panel noted that there is no evidence that UNDP officials knew that the DPRK government misused accounts that had been set up to receive UNDP funds to transfer North Korean monies abroad to avoid possible sanctions or to entities associated with secret weapons programs - nevertheless, we are deeply troubled by this misuse. The Report observes that UNDP did not sufficiently align its management controls to the "challenging environment" in which it found itself operating. Accordingly, the Report recommends "that an evaluation of UNDP-DPRK controls be performed" to strengthen these controls.

The Panel Report revealed an absence of understanding and required sensitivity to U.S. export control laws with respect to "dual use" items. As a result, a large number of sensitive items controlled by the U.S. for "national security and anti-terrorism reasons" were exported and/or retransferred by UNDP to North Korea without licenses.

The Panel noted that UNDP staff had long been aware of the use of counterfeit notes in North Korea. Previous UNDP staff in Pyongyang recognized that "counterfeiting was a significant issue at that time," and took measures to limit UNDP's vulnerability. However, "from the fall of 1999 to 2007, there was no apparent discussion among the Country Office staff about taking proactive measures." UNDP headquarters also ignored warning signs regarding counterfeit U.S. currency, which the U.S. Government brought to the attention of UNDP in the summer of 2006. The Panel noted that the head of UNDP Pyongyang office learned about the counterfeit U.S. currency stored in his office safe in October 2006, but waited until February 2007 to inform UNDP headquarters. The Panel also noted inconsistent accounts of this issue from the UNDP Comptroller.

Finally, the Report found that the whistleblower was justified in raising issues about UNDP's practices in the DPRK and that "he reported conduct and facts about UNDP operations in the DPRK that required resolution and may well have been in violation of UNDP policies as well as applicable agreements with the DPRK." It appears that the whistleblower did not have an opportunity to comment on the Panel's report before it was released.

Herfkens minder erg dan criminele ambtenaar

Tussen het recht en de financiën van de overheid ofwel de belastingbetaler bestaat een moeilijk te doorgronden relatie. Terwijl er veel gedoe is om Eveline Herfkens te bewegen, ja zelfs met juridische maatregelen te dwingen, de in strijd met VN-regels door de staat aan haar toegekende huurvergoeding van 280 duizend US-dollars terug te laten betalen, betaalt diezelfde staat moeiteloos de parkeerboetes en geldboetes van in diensttijd gepleegde snelheidsovertredingen van haar ambtenaren. Dus Herfkens moet financieel bloeden voor een te goeder trouw begane overtreding, terwijl een horde ambtenaren financieel geen cent hoeft te betalen voor gewoon opzettelijk begane strafbare feiten.

De kosten van al die geldboetes van ambtenaren behelzen een veelvoud van het huursubsidiebedrag van Herfkens en kost de belastingbetaler dus veel meer. Wonderwel windt niemand zich hierover op. Hier is niet alleen sprake van selectieve rechtshandhaving, maar ook nog van ambtelijke bevordering van zogeheten kleine criminaliteit, waarop de gewone burger keihard wordt afgerekend. Het is uit oogpunt van integere strafrechtspolitiek onaanvaardbaar dat de staat (lees: belastingbetaler) de geldboetes voldoet van door ambtenaren gepleegde strafbare feiten. Daarmee wordt zowel de generale als de speciale preventie, twee belangrijke doelen in het strafrecht, illusoir gemaakt. Het meest stuitend is echter, dat onschuldige burgers financieel opdraaien voor schuldige medeburgers. Al met al een situatie die reeds op grond hiervan de moraliteit van het gejaag op de centen van Herfkens ernstig vervlakt.

Daar komt nog bij dat bij de toekenning van de huurvergoeding aan Eveline Herfkens sprake is van een grote dosis van medeschuld van de staat. Dat zal zeer waarschijnlijk een juridische veroordeling van Herfkens in de weg staan, maar het maakt het verschil tussen rechtshandhaving ten aanzien van Herfkens en de overige ambtenaren wel extra stuitend en willekeurig.

Defensie betaalde kolonels bij VN illegaal

(Novum) - Het ministerie van Defensie heeft een salarisaanvulling voor twee Nederlandse kolonels werkzaam bij de Verenigde Naties stopgezet. Aanleiding is de affaire-Herfkens, waaruit naar voren kwam dat VN-medewerkers niet door derde partijen betaald mogen worden. Dat meldt een woordvoerder van Defensie vrijdag.

De kolonels zijn tijdelijk uit dienst bij Defensie en werken op het VN-hoofdkantoor in New York, als stafmedewerkers van secretaris-generaal Ban Ki-moon. Tot voor kort ontvingen ze van Defensie maandelijks elk enkele honderden euro's aanvullend op hun VN-salaris. Defensie gaf dat extraatje omdat de salarissen bij andere internationale organisaties als de NAVO hoger liggen. "We wilden dat gelijktrekken."

Defensie erkent de regels van de VN te hebben overtreden. Het ministerie heeft de vergoedingen ingetrokken, maar blijft ermee in zijn maag zitten. Defensie vreest dat Nederlanders wellicht in de toekomst niet meer voor een detachering bij de VN zullen kiezen als ze geen aanvulling krijgen op hun salaris. "Dan moet iemands keuze om bij de VN te gaan werken volledig gedragen worden door iemands motivatie. Mensen willen ook hun boterham kunnen betalen."

De twee kolonels hebben aangegeven ondanks hun verminderde inkomsten in New York te blijven. Wel voert Defensie nog gesprekken met beiden om eventueel op een andere manier compensatie te kunnen bieden. Of en hoe dit vorm gaat krijgen, kan de woordvoerder niet zeggen. Een optie is dat de twee worden gecompenseerd bij terugkomst, als ze weer in dienst van Defensie zijn, maar de woordvoerder weet niet of dit wettelijk mogelijk is.

Defensie sluit ook niet uit dat er voldoende officieren zullen zijn die genoegen nemen met een minder salaris en toch bij de VN gaan werken. De woordvoerder noemt het van belang dat Nederlanders werkzaam zijn bij de VN. Hij wijst op de verantwoordelijkheid als lidstaat en op de mogelijkheid invloed uit te oefenen.

Hoewel Defensie dezelfde regels heeft overtreden als Buitenlandse Zaken in de zaak-Herfkens, ziet Defensie ook grote verschillen. Zo zijn de bedragen die de kolonels ontvingen 'van een andere orde' dan de gage van Herfkens. Ook ging het bij de kolonels niet om huurtoeslag maar om een aanvulling op het inkomen.

Herfkens ontving van het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken 280 duizend dollar huursubsidie. Uit onderzoek van de VN-ontwikkelingsorganisatie UNDP, waar Herfkens werkzaam was, bleek deze week dat Herfkens de regels had ontvangen en ondertekend. Buitenlandse Zaken krijgt in het rapport kritiek omdat het de huursubsidie verstrekte. Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Maxime Verhagen (CDA) liet dinsdag weten het geld alsnog te willen terugvorderen, eventueel via een rechtsgang. Herfkens heeft te kennen gegeven het geld niet terug te betalen.

UNDP Procurement: A Shambles

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
By George Russell



The multibillion-dollar procurement business of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the U.N.’s flagship anti-poverty agency, is a gigantic shambles, according to UNDP’s own investigators.

Moreover, UNDP’s management has privately acknowledged that fact and is scrambling to fix the mess — even as it loudly denied concerns of a procurement scandal that have been raised by FOX News, among others.

In a confidential report obtained by FOX News, UNDP’s auditors have described the UNDP procurement organization that is spending well over $2 billion annually as:

— overwhelmed by its caseload at headquarters and in the field, while procurement ballooned from $800 million in 2003 to $2.5 billion in 2006 and $2.2 billion last year;

— often failing to provide plans to support its buying activities, which the report says causes many purchases of goods and services to be carried out on an "ad hoc basis" (in fact, more than $595 million worth of non-existent purchases were recorded, although the audit notes that they were not paid for);

— wallowing in shoddy paperwork and faulty bidding processes, which contributed to a "high number of waivers of the competitive process and to quality problems in the procurement process in general";

— lacking the expertise to evaluate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of its most expensive and important purchases in civic construction and high-tech communications;

— drastically unqualified: Fully half of the organization’s procurement staff around the world were not certified for the basic requirements of their jobs, while the auditors also found the six-hour course for those who were certified to be "inadequate." Initially, the auditors noted, "there are entire offices without a single certified buyer";

— suffering from an "apparent" conflict of interest at the top, where the people charged with vetting the procurement process for flaws are also members of the procurement office staff.

The same potentials for conflict of interest apparently dog local staffers, who, the report says, had not received official guidelines for disclosing their finances and interests, even though a policy demanding those declarations had been issued a year earlier.

Even more ominously, the same auditors point out that UNDP:

— has no sure way of knowing whether it is doing business with organizations that the U.N. itself has condemned for terrorist ties and says UNDP country offices find the current manual system of cross-checking with U.N. terrorist sanctions lists to be "cumbersome and inefficient";

— has no formal policy for suspending or removing vendors for poor performance or corruption;

— and doesn’t ask new vendors for the identity of their owners or other corporate ties. This raises the possibility that vendors caught out for corruption or poor performance could simply switch names and reapply for approved status.

The auditors also declare that at the time of their report, a staggering 260,000 vendors registered with UNDP were considered "inactive," meaning that the names existed, but the vendors were not seeking UNDP business — at least under those names.

Nor does UNDP policy, the auditors say, require detailed background checks on vendors unless "the contract amount is expected to exceed $1 million."

All of those observations, and many more almost as damning, are contained in a confidential draft audit report prepared by UNDP’s own Office of Audit and Investigations, or OAI, and embellished with comments by UNDP’s top management as of April 18. A redacted version of the draft report was obtained by FOX News.

Click here to see the draft audit.

According to its authors, the report contains some 21 "high priority" recommendations, where action is "imperative" and "failure to take action could result in major consequences and issues." All of these and other, less "imperative" recommendations were blacked out in the copy obtained by FOX News.

In several cases, where disagreement existed, it mainly appeared that top managers did not think UNDP could afford the changes or cited bureaucratic obstacles to full compliance.

The gaping holes and lack of competencies revealed by the report in the safeguards surrounding UNDP procurement have implications not only for the flagship anti-poverty agency but conceivably for many other U.N. agencies.

UNDP does business in 160 countries, where it designs all kinds of development programs in close collaboration with local governments, including a variety of radical dictatorships and many nations with abysmal corruption records.

UNDP has touted itself as a safeguard for the honesty and transparency of procurement exercises carried out on behalf of those governments — a view of UNDP probity and efficiency that the audit report essentially explodes.

Moreover, UNDP often conducts its procurement exercises to further the programs of other U.N. agencies among its far-flung constituencies, and the UNDP resident representative in each country is empowered as the U.N. secretary-general’s envoy.

UNDP is also taking the lead in an eight-country U.N. experiment known as "One U.N.," which will make the anti-poverty agency even more a conduit of all U.N. business in each nation, especially as "One U.N." rolls out further in the years ahead.

Among other things, the audit report gives grounds for questioning the wisdom of that process as it has been practiced.

The report includes a mini-digest of procurement cases with suspicious, unsatisfactory or unjustified results ranging from Ukraine ("the procurement process was unfair and non-transparent") to Colombia ("the soundness and effectiveness of the procurement process were questionable") to Somalia ("donor had requested a specific international company to be considered even though the solicitation process was local").

The importance of UNDP in the U.N. scheme of things and the controversy that has surrounded some of its recent actions are likely reasons for the apparent management scramble to meet its auditors’ concerns, especially as a key meeting of UNDP’s 36-nation supervisory executive board is scheduled to take place mid-June in Geneva.

On some issues examined in the report — notably, on the need to run background checks on vendors — management declares it will have a new system in place in June. Terrorist cross-checks, however, will take at least until July. So will the need to demonstrate planning along with "demonstrated capacity and performance," especially at the level of individual countries.

(Among other things, the audit report notes that some countries "have a rejection of 50 percent or more" on their first attempts at procurement submissions, while the overall rejection rates for Africa as a whole are "more than 40 percent.")

In April, UNDP took strong exception to a FOX News report that cited the development organization's own internal documents to show that over the past three years, UNDP had waived competitive bidding procedures for goods and services worth $879 million, roughly 58 percent of the total disbursed by UNDP headquarters during that time.

Some of the largest volumes of waivers went to countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, where official corruption has reached shocking levels.

In its response to the FOX report, UNDP claimed that procurement during the three-year period was $6.96 billion and claimed that waivers of competition amounted to only 7 percent of the total. That percentage, however, amounted to a redefinition of the term "waiver of competitive bidding" as used on the UNDP documents obtained by FOX.

The same month, after FOX questioned the existence of a $2.3 million UNDP procurement of U.S.-made airport scanners on behalf of the radical Chavez government in Venezuela, UNDP posted a purchase order whose date and number did not match earlier documents that the agency had said were used to ship the equipment — three weeks before the later documents attested that the deal had been done.

International anti-corruption watchdogs rank Venezuela as being on the same level as the Democratic Republic of Congo.

UNDP practices in its client countries have been controversial since January 2007, when then-U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Mark Wallace raised questions about the agency’s use of cash payments to North Koreans who were employees of the Kim Jong-Il regime and who also occupied sensitive UNDP local posts. Subsequent investigation revealed that the Kim regime had also used UNDP bank accounts to funnel money to its nuclear weapons program.

UNDP subsequently fired a member of its staff who blew the whistle on the North Korean practices and declared it was not bound by U.N. rules when the U.N.'s newly appointed ethics officer declared he had found "prima facie evidence" of retaliation against the whistleblower. An ostensibly independent report on the whistleblower’s status, written by three panelists chosen by UNDP, is expected shortly.

How successful UNDP will be at fixing the mess described in the April draft audit report remains to be seen.

Among other things, top management agreed with the auditors that greater regional supervision of UNDP country procurement decisions is required. (The auditors suggested that for waivers of competition where "exigency for the requirement" is cited as justification, "the Regional Bureau concerned should be requested to confirm that there is indeed a ‘genuine exigency.’")

But management also said that the changes in supervision would not be implemented before the end of this year.

George Russell is executive editor of FOX News.

BREAKING NEWS: Dutch Foreign Minister to demand Herfkens repay rebates

Published: Tuesday 27 May 2008 21:07 UTC Last updated: Tuesday 27 May 2008 21:07 UTC

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen says he will try to make former minister for development cooperation Eveline Herfkens repay the 280,000 euros she received from the Dutch government.

The money was for the cost of her New York apartment and for her removal expenses when she moved to Maryland.In 2002 Ms Herfkens moved to New York when she received a senior position at the United Nations Development Programme. The Dutch government paid her housing costs for a number of years, which violated UN rules. However, a UN report has absolved Ms Herfkens of willful wrongdoing. It says she was never informed she was breaking the rules by either the Dutch government or the UN.

However, Minister Verhagen says that when she was hired she signed a contract which contained all rules and regulations. He says this makes her responsible and hence she should repay her housing rebates. Ms Verhagen says the rebates may have been in violation of UN rules, but they were in accordance with Dutch law. She says: "Many people received rebates; I was not the only one."

A multi-millionaire in a $59.99 suit !!

Yes this is the guy - his name is Krishan Batra. The most "successful" Chief of ACP in the history of United Nations Development Programme.

During his tenure the ratio of approved with-no-minutes of ACP Waivers, Direct Procurement and fake vendors went up by a staggering 231%.

Private minutes of ACP meetings show that Krishan Batra was approving and uploading on his own at the rate of 3-to-1 cases. Cases that never passed and were never reviewed by ACP members, were sent to CPO for direct procurement, while no one were able nor dared to ask questions about how could all those billions make it without technical nor simple administrative review.

A man that underneath his cheap green suit, his reckless and quasi "homeless" outlook, who can pass anytime for a cleaner or the most random photocopy man, is none of the above.

He is the most sophisticated money making machine the corrupt history of our almost fifty-year single malt bureaucracy has ever seen. Yes dear colleagues he is the Head Cleaner !!

Today UNDP cannot even tell how much was/is the damage created by this man, on behalf of these CPOs during the recent years:

• Jan Mattsson;
• Bruce Jenks;
• Akiko Yuge;
• James Provenzano;

All the above, themselves do not know how many times they signed paperwork, served to them from this "perfect servant" and first class ass-leaking. With his fake smile, Krishan was able to pass millions upon millions of dollars, in :

• un-approved project expenditures;
• un-approved activities;
• un-foreseen and un-signed MoUs;
• non-existing vendors;
• contracts with no specifications nor technical details;
• contracts with no paperwork - who were rushed in for sake of the non-existing poor;

And many more .......

Eventhough all the above is totally proven and known to the Regime of Kemal Dervis and Ad Melkert, they have chosen the path of turning an blind eye on Krishan.

But why ? Does Krishan holds any secrets on Kemal Dervis and Ad Melkert? Have they made any deals? How many approvals Krishan processed on their behalf ? How many millions he produced and shared or provided the cut for Kemal Dervis and Melkert ?

Well dear colleagues, you might be saying all the above is untrue and is the making of group of crazy UNDP Watchers.......you maybe right......or wrong......

Soon we will all see !!!

This is the truth the Executive Board needs to know of how much happiness is inside UNDP

In an unprecedented speech the President of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Staff Council, Mr. Dimitri Samaras, laid down on January 31 2008- a completely different picture of what's going on inside UNDP.

Samaras words were so hard on Dervis that on his way out of the meeting, whispering to his "close" advisers, Kemal characterized it as an: -"unexpected hit below the belt".

In his speech during the Staff Global gathering, Samaras demanded from leadership some tough answers, about UNDP life.

Following are some of the passages of his speech:

On Security of UNDP Staff

• " Appeal to you to double your efforts to implement all measures, policies and strategies in order to make our organization a safer place and respond to our call for Zero tolerance pertaining to the violation of Staff Safety and Security"

On Transparency and Reform

• " UNDP staff are losing their sense of belonging and faith in UNDP"
• " Staff are improperly and unfairly managed and changes in Staff Management are necessary"
• " Staff expectations and concerns are neither addressed nor implemented"
• " Leadership uses inappropriately strategic placement/hiring (like Eveline Herfkens, etc);
• " dealing with problems post-factum (in a damage-control formula) shows lack of leadership and vision"
• " UNDP lacks of a system of justice to provide support and/or relief for staff grievances"
• " leadership has transformed UNDP from a merit-driven-organization to a "networking"-driven. Where staff has to kiss-... to get promoted"
• "managers operate out of given guidelines at all levels.....and instead of being held responsible they continue to act with impunity"
• "service contract and SSA holders continue to perform CORE functions"

Samaras also raised the issue of UNDP's Leadership claiming out-of-jurisdiction of UN Secretariat on Ethics and Ombudsman. He stated that:-"a separate Ombudsperson's office located in UNDP, loosely affiliated with the UN Secretariat, would hamper the General Assembly's initiative for a more fair and transparent system of justice".

Samaras also stressed that:-"a fragmented Ombudsperson's system similarly to the system of Ethics Office would not be in the interest of UNDP Staff" and that he would be "approaching the Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on this matter".

Today's address was a total blow to Dervis and Melkert pseudo-leadership and delivered a straight-forward message that the Staff Council will not bend to latest intimidation attempts from UNDP Management.

On the way out, many staff were congratulating Samaras for his strength and courage to stand in front of the leadership, while others smiling were reminding him of : - "when will his picture will be next in UNDP Watch or Innercity Press as a victim" or "when he will be the next whistleblower".

Samaras speech was delivered this afternoon to all mailboxes of UN Member States, including all major media acredited to the UN, by UNDP Watch volunteers.

Whistleblower allegations against UNDP

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1371453220080514

(Reuters) - The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) says it is investigating allegations by a former employee of corruption and mismanagement in its Somalia country office, including support for Dalsan, a money transfer company with suspected militant links.

The ex-employee, Ismail Ahmed, says the UNDP helped Dalsan -- which collapsed in May 2006, leaving depositors with losses of around $30 million -- in ways including the following:

-- By intervening with Swiss authorities in 2003 to obtain the release of funds frozen by the public prosecutor for suspected money laundering and terrorist finance offences. Swiss authorities dropped the case when UNDP provided a list of what it said were the ultimate beneficiaries in Somalia of the frozen funds.

-- By intervening on behalf of Dalsan agents and others in Norway to persuade authorities to lift a ban on Somali remittance companies.

-- By sending missions in the United States to assure state regulators and banks it was in the process of establishing an oversight mechanism to certify compliance with U.S. regulations in order to allay concerns about Dalsan and some other Somali money transfer companies. Dalsan was able to obtain licenses in 10 states without meeting minimum net worth requirements.

-- By supporting Dalsan's operation in Britain so that it could stay in business without complying with British regulations. Dalsan only ever submitted one set of accounts, representing a fraction of its activity.

-- By helping Dalsan in Dubai obtain a simple license from the central bank to act as a hawala business -- an informal transfer system -- although it should have had a formal money transfer and exchange license with minimum paid-up capital of about $1 million. Ahmed said this helped Dalsan avoid proper scrutiny and costly regulations.

UNDP's train on free fall .....!!!! While David Morrison continue to fake documents !!!