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2008-08-20 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russians dig in as pullback drags on in Georgia

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Posted by ed 2008-08-20 11:26|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 page 3 please.

Posted by ed 2008-08-20 11:31|| 2008-08-20 11:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Not that I have anything against the Georgians, but the WFP is not to be trusted. Something about all this seems orchestrated--the UN's payback, as President Bush's attack on Iraq spoiled their Oil-for-Food profiteering?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,406826,00.html
How Much Discretion? U.N.'s Anti-Poverty Program Wants Unlimited Spending Power
By George Russell

The United Nations Development Program, the U.N.s anti-poverty agency, which systematically ignored its own financial rules and regulations while funneling millions of dollars to North Korea, wants to give its chief operating officer the right to make out discretionary checks of unlimited amounts, without normal budgetary approval.

Thats up from the current limit of $50,000 which can be dispersed without regulatory oversight.

UNDP argues that the new ability to write such checks without normal authorization would only bring its discretionary powers into line with those currently exercised by other U.N. programs, like UNICEF and the World Food Program (WFP).The problem is that at the Rome-based WFP, the use of the same unlimited discretionary authority to pay off job-eliminated contract employees was condemned just last year as a $90 million abuse of authority and a violation both of U.N. payment rules for contractors, and of fairness to longer-term employees.

The condemnation was issued by the only budget oversight committee that includes the entire membership....

Posted by Danielle 2008-08-20 11:42|| 2008-08-20 11:42|| Front Page Top

#3 somehow I cant see what WFP being unfair in its allocation of severance packages has to do with distributing aid in Russian occupied Georgia, but then Im slow.

meanwhile the key issue is the looting being done by the Russians.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-08-20 11:51|| 2008-08-20 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 How much is a Russian promise worth?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-08-20 12:12|| 2008-08-20 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 About a crooked penny.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-08-20 12:24|| 2008-08-20 12:24|| Front Page Top

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