John Holmes is Undersecretary General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
Mr. JOHN HOLMES (Undersecretary General, United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs): A pleasure.
"The failure to inform headquarters adequately, and in a timely manner, contributed to miscommunications between the field and headquarters and between the United Nations and member states, " said Joseph Connor, undersecretary general for management, who wrote the report.
Mr. JAN EGELAND (Undersecretary General, Humanitarian Affairs, U.N.): We as humanitarians are now resigning to the fact that we will have to hang in there by our fingernails still for months to come before there might be a stronger security force.
He will be based in New York and his rank will be undersecretary-general.
Tragically, millions of North Koreans are hungry, and UN Undersecretary-General Valerie Amos has been lobbying for more international food assistance.
FORBES: Turn The Problem Of North Korea Over To Its Neighbors
Between his two assignments in Afghanistan, he was as undersecretary-general for special assignments in support of the secretary-general's preventive and peacemaking efforts.
But in the matter of U.N. oversight of its own ventures, it sets a disturbing precedent that to this day, the U.N. has not raised any serious objection to Picco having served as a U.N. undersecretary-general running the U.N.
According to a 2005 Senate subcommittee report, Picco provided his services on a number of occasions from 1997 to 2003--overlapping with his Dialogue appointment as a U.N. special representative and undersecretary-general--as a consultant on Oil-for-Food to Bayoil, a company owned by Houston oil man David Chalmers.
"The undersecretary of political affairs, the undersecretary for management, the director general of the Foreign Service and the deputy legal adviser will work with me to drive this forward, " Nides said.
Ironically in castigating the administration in general and in particular one of its senior officials, Undersecretary of State Robert Kimmitt, on this score Miss McGrory has improperly helped blur the record of two others who are culpable for that fiasco: former undersecretary of commerce Dennis Kloske and Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-Conn.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on international economic policy and trade.
At a ceremony held in the premises of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the inauguration of the West Polesie Biosphere Reserve, and in the presence of the Undersecretary of State for the Environment, Mr. Janusz Zaleski, the Director-General emphasized the role of Poland in the field of international scientific cooperation.
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