UN, as in FlUNky for Fascists

Published: July 30, 2007, 3:18 pm

Their veniality is beyond dispute. Their inventiveness never ceases to amaze: Most top-level [UN] appointments are presented to the public simply as a fait accompli, with a brief bio, disclosing little and in some cases obfuscating a great deal. Why doesn't the public deserve to hear a lot more about the criteria, qualifications, and selection process? Take, for example, the appointment by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, announced Friday, of a Russian, Dmitry Titov, to the newly created post in the peacekeeping department of Assistant-Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions. That sounds like an important job, given the cloud of sex scandals, smuggling scandals, procurement bribery scandals, financial scams and other abuses emanating from UN peacekeeping operations especially in Africa. And who is Titov? From the brief, six paragraph bio provided by the UN, we learn that since 1998 a period encompassing the roster of abuses above he has been the

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